Catalog of Boredom

I finally watched Easy Rider.

Jack Nicholson delivers a lucidly written commentary on the inability of "our antiquated systems" to accept the shock of a Venusian society without leaders, where all are provided for in health, food and transportation; equally. And the next evening, after a nasty encounter with some local yokels, he explains to Dennis Hopper's character that one problem with our country is how those who are free in name but not in reality fear true individual freedom, and respond with indolence and violence. In this instance, two men who tear-ass around the country on motorcycles, flaunting established behavior threatens the communal illusion of freedom; an illusion men will kill to defend.

Cut to the three sleeping men being beaten by the local rednecks. JN is beaten to death. At DH's persuation, the remaining two roll JN's corpse for money and continue on to debauchery and Mardi Gras. Peter Fonda's character regrets this decision, but lets himself be pushed into it. He might be a man of integrity with no direction. The movie ends when two back-country locals decide to scare the two motorcyclists by menacing DH with a shotgun from their pickup truck. He-yuck. DH flips them off, which they take as probable cause to shoot him in the face. As PF rides for help, they shoot him as well and leave him and his bike as a fireball on the side of the country road. No wrongdoing. No sermon. No regret. Fin.

That's just the way it is.

What's the right word for the attitude where you can catalog someone in a different column from you and consequently or subsequently deny them any respect or human dignity. And you aren't even angry about it. You're just sporting, as is your God-given right. Is that indolence? Contempt? Marginalization? Disregard? And then what do you call it when you give someone different from you the right to exist, but not the right to exist in fullness; to be equal; to be accountable? What are the names for those gradations? 1. You are not human. 2. You are less human than I am. 3. We are equal.

You know what Orwell said about words/names and their corresponding ideas. That sort of _______ attitude is a contributing factor, if not basis of things like hate crimes, genocide, forced sterilizations, abortion bans, gay marriage bans, enforced poverty and rape. So what's the word?