At some point we gotta be able to say: saying that conversations about modifying language or conversations about microagressions only happen in universities and other culturally privileged spaces is lying.
Like you think when like, for example, two trans people talk shit like misgendering never comes up? Or would never come up if it were not for the bourgeois university?
At some point we gotta be able to reach a conclusion - you think poor ppl and ppl without formal education are stupid and don't generate ideas.
Saying that all such efforts are the hated "identity politics" which are contrarevolutionary is just like. Fucking racist/homophobic/etc.
This is more complicated bc I'm here for a lot of criticism to identity politics and they are often made by actual marginalized organizers. But I think it's fair to say - I don't think your average white cishet dude professor who never so much as organized a kid's birthday party is capable of making those nuanced criticisms. And I think it's OK to just like, not want to read those half baked criticisms ever. Sorry not sorry.
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