In what way does it relate?
As if whole world of ideas & art and potential relationships based on shared experiences rather than culturally specific ones are a betrayal
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Some people might see it as a betrayal. My view is that assimilation can make people blind of their own group-based oppression.
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E.g. women of color who have learned to explain their career failures in terms of not-misogyny and not-racism.
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Surely, what's important is whether it *is* misogyny and racism. Shouldn't be a political requirement to think it is or isn't.
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Agreed. But there is pressure from the dominant, universalist majority to disregard such explanations!
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I think this is simplistic. I think a lot of the resistance to seeing racism & sexism etc comes from people seeing it everywhere.
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The terms are losing power because of overuse & misuse. If everything is sexism and racism, nothing is.
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“If everything i X, X is meaningless”—Agreed. However, racism & sexism exist as social phenomena distinct from analyses of cases
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Well, yes, but you can lose people's support if you aren't reasonable.
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