Sublime

I noticed that more and more of these savages had a story about a strange and terrible Woman Land in the high distance.

The same goes, of course, for human beings. The distancing effect of language facilitates exploitation, cruelty, murder, and genocide. When the other party to a relationship is a mere member of a generic category, be it “customer,” “terrorist,” or “employee,” exploitation or murder comes much more easily. Racial epithets serve the same purpose: we

The limits of that language—shared assumptions of class, culture, education, ethics—both focus and shrink the scope of the fiction.

There is white supremacy in mundane, everyday expressions. Black cats, black magic, black sheep in the family. All bad. White lies, better than regular lies. Even “white trash.” You don’t say “Black trash” or “brown trash,” ostensibly because it would be redundant in your white mind. When you say “white trash,” what you are saying is trash is by de

it referred to what the piece defined as tastelessness marked by "a contrast of luxury and squalor."$9