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Although you have to realize that there are people who see 'equality' as mythological, based on analyses of gender and race that see them as inherently hierarch
by detcader 13y ago
Although you have to realize that there are people who see 'equality' as mythological, based on analyses of gender and race that see them as inherently hierarchical through their social construction (basic reasoning reveals that race isn't just skin color and gender is not sex organs and characteristics). Unfortunately these people are few in number, and they're mostly women and non-white people, so no-one listens to them anyway.
If we sympathize with those folks, HN comment threads become even more futile.
- kingkawn 13y agoI understand that it seems like it will magnify the futility, but the way you are describing is the way that has been tried forever. It has resulted in slow change, usually only being realized when society as a whole has been influenced enough to forget the old perspective. There's a lot of power into both taking the full fears of another into consideration while simultaneously trying to present the full fears of their Other to them.