so, look at crime stats. They suggest that blacks commit more crime, but that ignores their higher rates of stops for comparable crimes.
If you want to find racism, read everything as racist. Same for sexism & homophobia etc.
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Where you never asked 'Do a feminist reading' 'Do a queer reading' 'Do a Marxist reading' & get completely different meanings from a text?
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This can be a fun experiment in seeing how differently we can read but when this goes into activism, ppl pick one & declare it true.
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When people reify it as truth, that's a mistake, but it's not unique to PoMo and can still be challenged within the system.
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I am talking about PoMo. Those sets of ideas are called postmodernism.
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If anyone is saying discourses create knowledge, knowledge is subjective, gender is a social construct etc etc, they're doing postmodernism.
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