I'm unhappy with how this tweet sits in the frame of Twitter and I want to talk about that for a bit. https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/826793663586037760 … 1/
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The strange loop/Kafkatrap/double-bind is fractal: Speaking is violence, not speaking is violence, and observing the trap is violence! 5/
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Of course nobody's going to enslave white people. Not outside Tumblr, college towns, cults, and other abusive relationships, anyway. 6/
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But as an awful bad terrible no-good classical liberal I still insist individual acts of concrete abuse and domination are The Problem. 7/
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In the end there is only the boot and the face. Black faces are more often stepped on, but a white face does not redeem the boot. 8/
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Categories can clarify where to direct our attention. They cannot turn abuse into justice. 9/
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Yeah, there's a wider pattern of Intersectionality For The 1% where it's very important that Goldman-Sachs partners be diverse
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Identitarian reification of categories obscures actual questions of power, provides cover for exploiters. Same ol' same ol'.
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And thus everything becomes about minor celebs deploying critiques of power to gain status advantage over other minor celebs.
End of conversation
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.