Racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, tribalism and ableism are different forms of discrimination and prejudice that have one thing in common: they are practised by the lowest form of human beings. All these phenomena are grounded on the idea that someone is beneath you – that they are the inferior “other” that should not be accorded human dignity.

For the racist, people of colour are sub-humans whose place in the world is on the cotton plantations and in the homes of Caucasians cleaning faeces in toilets. The homophone thinks queer people should not exist – they are unworthy of a place in the human race...