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Agnes Callard on Complaint

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Protests and Venting

Both protests in venting are like translations. So their translations of an original question into another discourse. In the case of protest, you've translated this question, why are we being heard into? Why are these specific unjust actions being performed? Asking about the question at that point is almost like asking a little bit too late. And so i think there's like an untranslated residue of the complaint that is visible when sort of what's officially been asked for maybe has been met.

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