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MODEL OF NEUTRAL-INCLUSIVITY
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THE MANIFESTATIONS OF EXCLUSIVISM
PHYSICAL SUBANTHROPIC

2.3.2 

ABSOLUTE TOTAL


The type of subanthropic exism in which a human body as a whole is referred to without having to simultaneously refer to other human beings or things as well, is absolute total physical subanthropic exclusivism (X.74). At least two manifestations of this type of exclusivism deserve our attention here, namely 'etatic' and racial, or other forms of generative, exism. Etatic is the word we shall use for age-related; it derives from aetas and indicates age in the sense of the number of years a human or other sentient being has lived. (When etatism is employed as short for etatic exclusivism it should not be mistaken for the differently pronounced homograph traditionally denoting a doctrine which advocates state intervention in either a large or too large a number of fields.)

If the object of age-related exism is the factor age itself, then it is age-centered exclusivism (X.297.0); if it is an age group, then age-based exclusivism or agism (X.297.1). An example of abnegational age-centered exism is the attitude of vehemently condemning racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination or exclusivism, while participating or tacitly acquiescing in all sorts of agism. Both age-centered and age-based exism are unitary, but the former is interfactorial, and the latter infrafactorial. As already discussed in section 2.1.3, the dimensional manifestations which can be distinguished for a tetratomic subdivision of age-based exism are juvenile (X.297.19), adult young-age(-centered) (X.297.37), middle-age(-centered) (X.297.72) and old-age(-centered) exclusivism (X.297.73). A few components of these nondichotomous manifestations are:

  1. discrimination of juveniles, often called "minors", by adults, for example, with regard to human rights, their chances, access or acceptance (X.297.19.13);
  2. discrimination of juveniles and middle- and old-age people by young adults (X.297.37.8);
  3. preoccupation with youth, possibly leading to exclusive behavior, such as excessive artificial attempts to look or stay young (X.297.37.11);
  4. fear or distrust of, uneasiness with, or alienation from, young (adult) people and their thoughts and way of life, particularly by older adults (X.297.37.15);
  5. discrimination of children and adults under a certain age, considered (too) young, and other adults over a certain age, considered (too) old by adults who are, or would be, neither (too) young nor (too) old themselves (X.297.72.8);
  6. sentimental preoccupation with old age, or exclusive respect for old-age people by young and middle-age people who aggrandize old age in certain or in all respects (X.297.73.11); and
  7. fear or distrust of, uneasiness with, or alienation from, the elderly and their thoughts and way of life (X.297.73.15).

The exclusion or discrimination of children and young and middle-age adults by elderly people (X.297.73.8) involves the institution of gerontocracy. The relegation of the elderly to old-age homes or 'total institutions' is a form of old-age exclusionism (X.297.73.13).

Generative absolute total physical subanthropic exclusivism (X.149) is the exclusion or exclusivity of a whole human body on the basis of subanthropic physical characteristics relating to biological generation. In the broadest sense these characteristics are racial, in the narrowest sense familial. Thus we shall distinguish racial exclusivism, generative familial exclusivism and one variant in between, namely generative ethnical exclusivism. Generative is added because familial and ethnical irrelevantism can also be cultural, that is, nonphysical. Racial exclusivism or racialism (X.597) is exism re one or more, but not all subspecies of humans distinguished by, among other things, a particular color, that is, pigmentation of their skin, and possibly the application of this exism to anthropically conceived beings. (Some antiracists have claimed for nonontological reasons that human 'races' would not exist at all, but this preposterous existential abnegational racialism is due to their inability to differentiate the truth- and the relevancy-conditional. Rejecting the distinctions made by racists they feel forced to contend that it is not true that these distinctions would exist, because they cannot comprehend what it means that they would not be relevant, whether truly drawn or not.)

Generative ethnical exclusivism (X.596) is exism re one or more, but not all, ethnic communities belonging to one of humankind's races, and possibly the application of this exism to anthropically conceived beings. Generative familial exclusivism (X.299) is exism re consanguineous members of a human family or group of families smaller than an ethnic community, such as a caste. We shall now first examine some of the componential and operational manifestations of racialism.

Like etatic exclusivism also racialism can be manifested in an inter- and in an infrafactorial way. Aggrandizemental race-centered exclusivism, for instance, is among other things an exclusive or disproportionate attention for race-discrimination in comparison with other forms of discrimination. (Thus it has been pointed out by others before that an overemphasis upon race as a factor of distinction will be counterproductive when trying to combat racism.) It also refers to a practise or policy of making irrelevant, racial distinctions without considering or treating one race, or group of races as superior or inferior to the other. This is what (racial) apartheid in the literal sense is supposed to stand for, and which not only has been, or still is, advocated by a privileged racial minority, but elsewhere also by racial minorities which used to be, or still are, the victims of racism themselves. This type of interfactorial racialists all hold that people should go to, and have, their own 'homeland' (or at least their own schools and clubs) on the basis of the race they belong to. In theory none of them need advocate or support any form of infrafactorial racialism as well (as their separate but equal slogan may suggest), but in practise both manifestations of racialism usually or always go together.

Infrafactorial racialism is race-based exclusivism or racism and the aggrandizemental component of this exism is, as a cognition, the belief that a certain race or group of races would be superior. If sentimental, it is the preference for one or more characteristics of that race or group of races per se, leading to exclusive behavior or preoccupation with those characteristics. (Some theorists have argued that the wrongness of racism does not lie in the irrelevance or arbitrariness of the racial distinction made, but in practises like slavery and other forms of oppression. These theorists, however, confuse racism as racism with violations of personhood in particular: slavery and oppression are wrong even where and when no racial distinction is made at all.)

Active abnegational racialism is the exclusion of members of another race or of other races (than considered superior) from equal treatment and from equality in general. A most vicious example of this abnegating exclusivism is the policy of racial 'apartheid' as actually implemented and according to which even rights of personhood are violated because of people's skin-color (and because of their opposition to that policy itself). If sentimental, abnegational race-based exism is uneasiness, possibly fear, alienation or ignorance with respect to members or characteristics of a race or group of races believed or felt to be inferior. As a cognition, supreme aggrandizemental race-based exism is the belief that the supreme being and/or its earthly incarnation(s) or last prophet can/do exclusively belong to, or has an exclusive or special relationship with, one particular race: the so-called 'chosen race'. It is also the custom of depicting the supreme being and/or its divine avatar(s) or prophet(s) as having the skin-color or other characteristic of one particular race. A closely related form of principal racialism is demonical abnegational race-based exism. This involves the custom of depicting the devil or demons, and possibly its/their demonical incarnation(s), as having the color or other characteristic of one particular race or group of races.

Ethnical exclusivism is ethnocentrism when aggrandizemental (X.596.02). The manifestations of generative ethnocentrism and abnegational ethnical exclusivism in general follow a pattern analogous to that of aggrandizemental and abnegational racialism. A difference may be that it has never been attempted (or been possible) to exterminate a whole race, while it has been attempted to exterminate whole ethnic communities of millions of people. Such genocides or attempts at genocide are acts of ethnical exclusionism which almost defy every description of their gruesomeness. Yet, when people are killed by the same enemy in, for example, the same concentration camp either for their belonging to a particular ethnic or national group or for their belonging to a certain ideological or nonideological minority, one shall not add to this gruesomeness by exclusively mentioning, or showing compassion for, the members of one group and by thus completely ignoring all others who had to go thru the same ordeal, sometimes better, sometimes worse. It is very sad, indeed, when even the descriptions of mass murders suffer from ethnical exclusivism, whether infra- or interfactorial, whether abnegational or aggrandizemental. It is even sadder when political and military opponents of the mass murderers later turn out to display some of the very same discriminatory and authoritarian attitudes themselves. (To argue that 'only' 49%, or some smaller percentage, of the people killed belonged to other groups, is an unsavory majoritarian kind of reasoning which nourishes the exclusionist neglect of, and feelings of hatred towards, minorities in the first place.)

An external sentimental abnegational component of infrafactorial ethnical exclusivism is xenophobia. This operation is, like physical forms of exclusion, affirmative, that is, nonintermediary. It is often combined with lingual abnegational ethnical exclusivism, an intermediary operation which involves the use of pejoratives to denote the members of a certain people or ethnic group. Another intermediary operation of ethnical exclusivism is supreme ethnocentrism. This is the belief that the supreme being and/or its earthly incarnation(s) or last prophet can, or does, exclusively belong to, or has an exclusive or special relationship with, one particular people: the 'chosen people'. It is also the doctrine that all members of one particular ethnic group would be guilty of the murder of the supreme being's sole incarnation, a doctrine for which certain sacred books are a fertile soil, and which has been religiously employed to 'justify' all sorts of abominations.

The history of humankind proves that affirmative, exemplary and intermediary forms of ethnocentrism always tend to go together with abnegational ethnical exism, if not in the same person with respect to different ethnic groups, then in different persons with respect to the same ethnic group. Thus, it is probable that those who consider themselves members of a chosen or superior people, or who adhere to an ideology claiming or implying that they do belong to such a people, shall once be chosen as the victims of the abnegational component of the same exclusivism. The demise of abnegational ethnical exclusivism and racialism can only be brought about when not anyone of whatever people or race does suggest anymore that 'er people or race would be superior. So long as some people believe in their ethnic superiority or in a 'more equal' relationship with the supreme being, its incarnation(s) or its 'last' prophet on the basis of their ethnicity, there will be no ethnical inclusivity. A recrudescence of the most monstrous kinds of ethnocentrism and other forms of generative subanthropic exclusivism (to say nothing of religionism and nationalism) must then always be feared for.

What applies to racial and ethnical exclusivism applies in principle equally to familial exclusivism and therefore we can be relatively short about this integral manifestation. For discrimination on the basis of caste (which will return under class-based exclusivism) there is no special name in this language, but there is one for 'nepotism', a form of familial exism. Nepotism is discrimination against nonrelatives, or favoritism shown to a relative on the basis of family relationship. If physical and generative (that is, if the relationship is a consanguineous one), nepotism is self-aggrandizing generative familial exclusivism (X.299.08). The familial exclusivist need not favor 'er own family tho, 'e may also favor, and assign an exclusive status to, another family, especially one particular family in 'er community or country. Such external aggrandizing generative familial exclusivism (X.299.09) is an indispensable ingredient of monarchism if adhered to by people who are not members of the 'chosen family' themselves. Whether internal or external, aggrandizemental familial exclusivism differs only from aggrandizemental racialism and ethnocentrism in being the narrowest aggrandizemental type of generative subanthropic exclusivism. So long as this narrowest type continues to exist, no subject can expect the broader types to disappear.


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