Aporophobia and Classification of People: An Approach on the Economic Foundation of Contemporary Racisms

Abstract

The classification of people in order of preference is a perverse wound that nullifies the value of human beings. This article aims to present economic inequality as the main root of exclusions and the origin of innumerable forms of human reitification, based on Adela Cortina's concept of aporophobia. The current levels of exclusion, amplified by the pandemic 2020, call for public and social policies that demonstrate that it is possible to equalize this gap that shames human capacity and the potential of the innumerable mechanisms of social justice. The abundance of goods production, the countless forms of violence and the growth of poverty denounce laws, institutions and insensitive and inhuman leaders.