Representational acts that belittle are themselves a form of violence.

Evidence

This could be teased open a touch to consider what might be called “representational violence” through acts – speech acts, of course, but more broadly various sorts of expression, or articulations – that belittle, that make small simply for the sake of diminishing, of reducing in power, stature, status, standing. The notions of be-rating (B-rating), of de-grading (D-grading) indicate the violence, the disruption, and oftentimes the associated humiliation as well as the bringing up short I took above to be central to the sense of violence. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1820

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces ‘representational violence’ as belittling acts that reduce status and power.
• XREF: connects to: People derogate their victims to justify having harmed them. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3962; Perpetrators excuse harm by displacing blame and dehumanizing victims; Objectifying thought commits the mental violence that later becomes physical violence — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 153 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Violence includes psychic and representational forms beyond physical force #corroborates (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1819
• Objectifying thought commits the mental violence that later becomes physical violence #expands (0.90) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 153
• Perpetrators excuse harm by displacing blame and dehumanizing victims #expands (0.78)
• People derogate their victims to justify having harmed them. #expands (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3962