Stripping a people’s sacred historical claims reduces them to disposable naked life

Evidence

It is that sanctity, integral to a people’s sense of dignity, that Ibn Warraq wants to steal from Muslims— thus preparing them to become what Giorgio Agamben calls homo sacer, “naked life”, so that when they are massacred in multitudes, not event the dignity of the word “Palestinians” will be attached to their slaughtered numbers. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 518 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

There is not a community anywhere on earth without a sense of inviolable sanctity to its collective identity, history, culture—all resting on certain iconic sets of evidence, from the Hebrew Bible to the American Constitution. It is that sanctity, integral to a people’s sense of dignity, that Ibn Warraq wants to steal from Muslims— thus preparing them to become what Giorgio Agamben calls homo sacer, “naked life”, so that when they are massacred in multitudes, not event the dignity of the word “Palestinians” will be attached to their slaughtered numbers. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 518 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The obscene is revealed facticity stripped of its acts and situation — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 993; Mass culture abolishes the individual’s lived history, reducing life to disposable instants — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 185; Strip a people of their historical sanctity to make them killable without dignity — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 518 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Stripping a people’s sanctity prepares them for becoming expendable naked life #corroborates (0.95) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 518
• Strip a people of their historical sanctity to make them killable without dignity #expands (0.93) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 518