Really good essay that cuts to the roots of some popular leftist ideas about liberation. http://quillette.com/2017/12/09/white-women-tears-wilfrid-laurier-critical-theory/ …
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I actually do identify as an anti-authoritarian and an anarchist, and I see hierarchies as things to dissolve. But there's a great deal of evil in the word 'overthrow'; the leftist mob would cure cancer by beating the patient to death.
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Naw, they'd claim cancer was a social construct and that chemotherapy is just something people decide to do or not do and that's a valid choice.
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In this analogy I was thinking more of eg "overthrowing capitalism".
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