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One of the hardest things for people "privileged" enough to have indulged the illusion of someone's goodness is coming to terms with their own total failures of moral clarity. This "bifurcation" is a symptom of the field, but it is simultaneously a signal symptom of societies... https://twitter.com/oligopistos/status/1275777111010181120
such as ours, that is grounded in the insistence that predation is something "the other" does. Only when empowered privileged people--in the field, in societies so constructed--are willing to tear down the very structures of that violent lie, will progress be made.
This excellent thread, like that of @MAdryaelTong, recognizes that there is no "pure scholarship" (or pure society) separate from the violence and violation that supports the structures of such scholars' privilege.
Thank you both for naming that.
