Chaya Bhuvaneswar – Michigan Quarterly Review

Chaya Bhuvaneswar

Safe: A Meditation on Charlottesville and Beyond

The public nature of the hate is critical to its Americanizing function. Shouting hate slogans, hateful slurs, is our form of communist denunciation and coerced betrayals of loved ones — only, instead of marking Party membership, by offering up traitors to a cause, capitalists, enemies of state — we signal we are part of the majority by verbalizing hate, demonization, exclusion.

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