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10.5.4.3
Outcasting
Definitional
In this case, delegitimizing strategies draw from the broad classification of
outcast
that has been used throughout human history, that is, individuals that various
communities exile to the margins of society or even reject from the circles of “us.”
In the language of the delegitimized, these demonstrators are considered outsiders
for socio-racial reasons by terms like
Jews
or
gypsies
or by sexual orientation like
gay
,
prostitute
,or
lesbian
or by social conduct like
revolutionaries
,
murderers
,or
drug addicts
. This language aims at giving demonstrators an outsider identity.
Behavioral
In this category, demonstrators assume a series of behavioral types that usually
characterize the outsider. From a narrative: “
After she vomited
(
:::
)
she asked for a
rag, she asked for something to clean up with, and they kept saying 'no', even telling
her 'now clean it up with your tongue, we don't care if you have made a mess'
;or
“
I was ordered to collect the garbage and put it out
:::
to collect the garbage.
”.
Environmental
History has taught us that outsiders can be physically cut off from the community
of respectable people and confined to special places. Since the nineteenth century
it has been possible to have symbolic resources to create an environment that
expresses social exclusion. From the account of a witness a smiling agent emerges
to welcome the demonstrators saying, “
Welcome to Auschwitz,
” or with a chilling
tone he declares that “
The Nazis are thinking of you.
”
10.5.4.4
Group Comparison
Definitional
Here delegitimization is organized in ascribing to the outgroup the essence of
negativity, before a virtuous ingroup. For example, a kefia worn by a demonstrator
becomes the pretext for verbal attack: “
A keffiyeh
was found.
I was asked if that was
a symbol of the Arabs and with subsequent insults to the Arab world.
” Women are
addressed as
housewives of shit
.
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