Slavery

Modern extremists differentiate between “real” citizens versus immigrants, elites versus parasites, makers versus takers, Israelis versus Palestinians, etc. Always a division into rulers and ruled.

The dominant rationale has always been that society needed order, and some are naturally fitted to rule while others to serve.

Each time, the justification boils down to the same emotional stance: we don’t have to recognise those people as fully human like us, because nature, God, race, or destiny says they’re built to serve.

This is the exact opposite of emotional intelligence: instead of asking “what is this person feeling?” the perpetrators assert “their feelings are irrelevant, because of who they are.”

You can’t just legislate this stupidity out of existence. It’ll just pop up somewhere else in a new form.