I particularly resonate with the theme of hope. There's an awful lot of catastrophe thinking around. Certainly we live in interesting times. To dwell on "things have to change" is silly because there is already no stopping the changing.
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Maybe this is just my boomer cluelessness, but I've lived thru several eras of crisis and of hope. Ppl need to take a deep breath, stop being so sure of terrible thing that's going to happen, instead work toward the good thing. The scope for constructive work is rarely politics.
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Any youngster in social sciences wishing to improve the world could not do better than figure out an appropriate vocabulary for discussing this sort of thing... 1/
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Politics, history, journalism, they're all polluted by a certain way of talking that says things like "People believe" or "People believed" or "Whites believe"; and related statements like "No-one can ..." or No-one believes..." 2/
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This thing is not like the other things.
Listening, I had to constantly fight the urge to mentally agree or disagree—which would miss the value here: the proclamation that the most important conversations are not happening.