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> Without a degree of essentialism, that is, an idea of what is normal and what a person/society should strive for, you can accept anything. Essentialism is a
by danans 6y ago
> Without a degree of essentialism, that is, an idea of what is normal and what a person/society should strive for, you can accept anything.
Essentialism is a tool, at most a particular lens that should be viewed through, but what is seen should not taken as a truth, but only a highly filtered and downsampled representation of it. Essentialism is also what kept slavery justified (under the theory that Africans were "essentially" fit for forced labor), before a different essentialism took over.
- coldtea 6y ago>Essentialism is also what kept slavery justified (under the theory that Africans were "essentially" fit for forced labor), before a different essentialism took over. Yes. It can't be written off as "essentially" (pun intended) bad. It depends on the use - and as everything in social life, it's complicated.