Throughout history, different kinds of violence have taken place in humanity, and one of the most evident kinds has been epistemic violence. Epistemic violence has to do with the idea and desire to impose knowledge on the Other (Pulido Tirado, 2009). Different examples of this kind of violence can be seen in our daily context in relation to knowledge and power.
According to Soler (2020), when the human genome appeared, it became a reason to say that every human being is equal, and yet racism persisted. Some Eurocentric thinkers did not accept this idea of equality: They needed domination to persist because their higher position in the hierarchy had to prevail for their own benefit and the domination of minorities. Knowledge is, in most cases, created and produced with the idea of domination. That is why most cultural knowledge nowadays is ignored or, worse, considered nonexistent, as it is seen as related to witchcraft or black magic. This is a clear example of what happens when a specific form of knowledge can affect and endanger the pre-established societal order: Those in charge will do whatever is possible to discredit it until it is completely erased.