Confronting the “Elite Capture” of Identity Politics in Our Movement Spaces
Movement Memos
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The Most Serious Thing That Goes Wrong With Deference Politics
I think the motivation for deference politics can come from a good place. But I don't think that this way of responding to these important insights about the world is a good one. The people whose perspectives are put in front of us in the first place are chosen by the very system of inequality and injustice we're rebelling against. So it's not an accident which people are in a position to get their views out there. That's part and parcel of how the capture works in the first Place.
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