Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-290).

A reparative manifesto -- Part one. The conflicted self and the abusive state. In love: conflict is not abuse ; Abandoning the personal: the state and the production of abuse ; The police and the politics of overstating harm ; HIV criminalization in Canada -- Part two. The impulse to escalate. On escalation ; Manic flight reaction: trigger + shunning ; Queer families, compensatory motherhood, and the political culture of escalation -- Part three. Supremacy/Trauma and the justification of injustice: the Israeli war on Gaza. Watching genocide unfold in real time ; The duty of repair.

This work is a searing rejection of the cultural phenomenon of blame, cruelty, and scapegoating, revealing how those in positions of power exacerbate and manipulate fear of the 'other' to avoid facing themselves.