The first is that of generating new forms of exclusion by the very opposition to exclusionary practices: our “moral” and “civilizing” zeal causes us to erect new and oppressive boundaries as well as blinds us to the fact that we are doing so. The second danger arises from the attempt to escape the first. It consists in falling into the abyss of nonorder in which the struggle against exclusion implodes on itself because, in the absence of all boundaries, we are unable to name what is excluded or why it ought not to be excluded. For the sake of the victims of exclusion, we must seek to avoid
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