Trump's obsession with purity and disgust is mirrored by social justice zealots. Both possess fear of contamintion.http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/06/opinion/campaign-stops/purity-disgust-and-donald-trump.html …
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Whether it's women's bodies or whiteness or Islam or the patriarchy, marking something as toxic and filthy produces VERY powerful reactions.
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I suspect
@JonHaidt has observed that Trump authoritarians and leftist shamemongerers both obsess over purity & miasma.4 replies 9 retweets 26 likes -
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The Greeks considered mental illness to be a miasma and would ostracize the mad. Expelling social "pollutants" seems baked into humans.
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And, well, the Dalits--or rather the Candalas or Untouchables--pretty much speak for themselves.
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If you *must* carve the world up by privilege, whiteness/non-whiteness is a far worse dividing line than touchable/untouchable.
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That's my theory behind both Trump & the social justice zealots' obsession with purification. See image below.pic.twitter.com/HlQblulHZP
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Who is unprivileged? Ask yourself: who are you scared to associate with? Who disgusts you? Who is subhuman? That's a start.
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The unprivileged are those of whom we hear, "They *deserve* to be devalued/ignored/ostracized/stigmatized." That's the indicator.
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