The Politics of Superfluousity
摘要
This chapter contextualizes the argument in the preceding chapter (Chap. 4 ) by using how Westerners (North Americans and Europeans) discriminate against Black migrants (including asylum seekers and refugees) to buttress the point that the Black condition is not an aberration. The chapter argues that such discrimination is essentially based on racism and as such is quintessential ongoing racism, consequently, plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. In other words, this chapter is about how Black migrants are treated in North America and Europe. Their treatment signifies that they are considered by Europeans to be superfluous people. In the politics of superfluousity, some people consider other people to be superfluous human beings, on this ground, the former resent the latter and think it is morally justifiable (albeit in a perverse world of morality) to dehumanize the latter, and consequently, the former go ahead to dehumanize the latter.