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Ep. 236: Judith Butler Interview: "The Force of Nonviolence"

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The Importance of Dependency in Social Relations

The idea of intolerable dependency is there. The state of California has been dependent on migrant workers for decades, and most of them undocumented. Many of our major industries could not function without undocumented laborers. So the question is, do we or do we not avow that dependency? And what do we make of that? It's not a dependency in the sense of a love relationship,. But it is nevertheless there as an economic dependency on that labor at the same time that we subordinate or impose monolingualism on our seat to sometimes impose monolingually on our community.

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