This is fantastic. You know, it took me 30 years to unravel liberalism out of my system. I really believed in harm reduction and thought about MY rights as a woman. But then I realized white women having the right to abortion and rainbow flags on the white house when Genocide Joe and Holocaust Harris were supporting and funding genocide was hypocricy. They are killing gay folks in Palestine. They are blowing up reproductive health care clinics that women us in Palestine, they are killing women, they are killing Black people in Palestine. And Israel has shipped it abroad in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Sudan, Congo, and now Iran.
I appreciate you reading and thanks for your comment Julia! It is cringe right ... I mean they are obviously universal things about the human experience, but what's happening is as Liboiron says, expanding one general as universal – FWIW I think this can be challenging to grasp for people like me who have been at the centre of the "universal" for oh 500 years or so? Not excusing anybody there just noting that our cultural systems are designed to produce that end result
Oh for sure. It definitely took me a while to grasp why this was problematic, too. It was partly via watching my non-white colleagues receive critique in my creative writing grad program that I started to understand the flattening nature / goals of "universality."
What an interesting perspective, Jon. I think so many of us are grappling with the kinds of changes we need to make both outwardly and inwardly. As you say, the consequences are extremely dire if we don't.
This is fantastic. You know, it took me 30 years to unravel liberalism out of my system. I really believed in harm reduction and thought about MY rights as a woman. But then I realized white women having the right to abortion and rainbow flags on the white house when Genocide Joe and Holocaust Harris were supporting and funding genocide was hypocricy. They are killing gay folks in Palestine. They are blowing up reproductive health care clinics that women us in Palestine, they are killing women, they are killing Black people in Palestine. And Israel has shipped it abroad in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Sudan, Congo, and now Iran.
There is no harm reduction in liberalism.
Nobody is free until everyone is free.
This is great, Jon. The Universal still comes up so often in creative writing instruction and I cringe, cringe, cringe every time.
I appreciate you reading and thanks for your comment Julia! It is cringe right ... I mean they are obviously universal things about the human experience, but what's happening is as Liboiron says, expanding one general as universal – FWIW I think this can be challenging to grasp for people like me who have been at the centre of the "universal" for oh 500 years or so? Not excusing anybody there just noting that our cultural systems are designed to produce that end result
Oh for sure. It definitely took me a while to grasp why this was problematic, too. It was partly via watching my non-white colleagues receive critique in my creative writing grad program that I started to understand the flattening nature / goals of "universality."
What an interesting perspective, Jon. I think so many of us are grappling with the kinds of changes we need to make both outwardly and inwardly. As you say, the consequences are extremely dire if we don't.