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How to: Make useful comparisons and anologies between oppressed groups

August 19th, 2008 No Comments

hlwiley asked me in a recent comment whether I thought were any useful analogies to be made in the -isms spaces. I responded that while I thought in general, analogies are really sticky and tricky and dangerous things, I would think about it and get back to it.

Here’s my attempt at starting the conversation.

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On the entitlement of safety and its relationship to docentry/tokenism, reverse racism and anti-racism

August 19th, 2008 1 Comment

In which I shall attempt to explain how I think entitlement/privilege is related to docentry/tokenism, reverse racism and how I think you can use your entitlement/privilege for good.

Updated: To try to clarify a bit.

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