The double other of the pandemic: racism and subjectivity
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The coronavirus pandemic has unequally changed the lives of subjects. The constant presence of death points us to that random subject who is feared, but who is unknown. It is the Other that could put our lives at risk, but as we do not know him it is impossible to point out. It may be someone from our close environment, a family member, a friend, a neighbor, but not necessarily a stranger. Therefore, it is from here that it is easier to look for an already identified Other and blame it for spreading the pandemic. This is what happened in Chile with migrants, whose condition makes them the target where the government and part of society throw darts. This paper proposes a reflection, from racism and subjectivity, on those two Others: the one we don't know, but who forces us to build trenches to avoid it, and the second other who we have identified as an enemy, and as such, sick or not, emerges as guilty of our ills
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