The word immune comes from practices of colonialism that are that date back to the roman empire. To be immune is to be not subject to the same duties, and therefore not quite as good as those who were doing the conquering. The language of immunity conjures up thee sort of battle lines of supremacy that rupe and i were oring through, this idea of inflammation.
Industrial capitalism and colonialism are literally making us sick. Raj Patel and Rupa Marya on Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice.
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