Othering a people is as insidious as labeling them, if not more so. It can fuel misconceptions, discrimination and prejudice. It can justify massacres and genocide. If one considers others who are not like themselves to be subhuman or less deserving of even the most basic human rights, it makes it all the easier to justify their dispossession, impunity and mass murder.
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