Much like breaking, othering creates a hard line between “us” and “them” by making any kind of difference—whether skin color, socioeconomic status, political views, or anything else—a dividing line. The danger of othering, says john, is that we end up making caricatures of others because we never come into contact with them—and once we go down that road, he cautions, “we’re not a long way from doing all kinds of terrible things to each other.”
