This. Is. the. Thing. https://twitter.com/eveewing/status/902916562524495878 …
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There's a demographic dimension to this...you get op-eds like Weiss's when these ideas are abstractions that are only occasionally engaged
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There's still no broad sense that "race" is a history beat and a sociology beat and a culture beat and a policy beat and a legal beat.
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It's just writing about "feelings," things about which people might disagree.
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How else could Weiss write an essay about appropriation in which she asserts things like this?pic.twitter.com/SAbiFohNMu
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America is not separated by race and class? That that isn't true is both easily knowable and incredibly well-documented.
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It's like watching someone write that the Cavs shouldn't re-sign LeBron James bc his slugging percentage is the worst in the majors.
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it's like, "fam...you aren't even in the right conversation?"
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She engaged the most cartoonish version of the arguments against appropriation, which is an incredibly complex, messy topic.
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But it's disqualifying to talk about production --- cultural production, economic production --- and wave away disparities in power.
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Contemporary disparities. Historical disparities. That's easy to do if this is all just much ado abt "feelings."
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it's annoying but also, like...this is why our discourse around race looks the way it does.
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Some our most important outlets treat it as opinion, like folks are disagreeing over whether America just put too much garlic in the sauce.
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"Hey, you might see it differently! Reasonable people can disagree!"
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Imagine how our society might be materially different if our leading outlets were not this way, or if they had not ALWAYS been this way.
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