Joined: 6 Feb 2005 Age: 44 Gender: Male Posts: 24,182 Location: 28th Path of Tzaddi
07 Jul 2019, 3:26 pm
Run-time: 15:44
He did well here in explaining why this isn't a useful way of looking at the issue of racism and systemic oppression. My condensation of it - you lose/throw away tools by arbitrarily fusing two dynamics (ie. individual racism vs. power to inflict it) rather than gaining them.
_________________ “Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” - James Baldwin
07 Jul 2019, 3:26 pm
