"The Other becomes a pure object, a spectacle, a clown. Relegated to the confines of humanity, he no longer threatens the security of home. This figure is chiefly petit-bourgeois. For, even if he is unable to experience the Other in himself, the bourgeois can at least imagine the place where he fits in: this is what is known as liberalism, which is a sort of intellectual equilibrium based on recognized places." 

Fra Roland Barthes: Mythologies