2. The phrase is connected to an idea of “maleness” and “whiteness” being inevtented from of social oppression that can be dismantled. There are, in fact, merely humans...or more accurately...possibilties.
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3. However, this is too abstract for a mass audience. When a mass audience is told by the BBC that there is such a thing as a “white, male gaze” they will assume that this refers to something innately biological.
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4. In other words, leftist rhetoric and critique will reinforce a sense—as genetics grows more potent—of human difference being biological. This is counter to the left’s aims.
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