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[MisterP]

60. "culture/subjectivity is what *other* people have"

it's the same thinking behind that Quebecois law: when they say "leave your culture at the door" they're meaning "headscarves and yarmulkes non, suit and tie oui" (and they certainly don't mean take off the suit and tie and run around naked); the French law was even more extreme, with the government flat-out assuming that nobody could ever wear a headscarf of their own volition: anything other than suit-and-tie was, by definition, an imposition from outside

Latin American elites also took advantage of this sort of thinking: they could deny massacres for years because campesinos were assumed to just be so isolated and wrapped up in superstition that they could outright hallucinate, seeing routine military maneuvers as a slaughter of women, children, and the elderly in a river (presumably the descending flocks of vultures the next day were just bits of discarded parachute)

(it's even got a name! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_history)