Honestly, I’m having a hard time seeing how it’s ‘essentialism’ when I’m decrying things that white folk never stopped doing– if anything, they just found sneakier ways to go about the same objectives of Manifest Destiny, the same objectives of Intentionally-Downed-Reconstruction, the same objectives of Jim Crow, the same objectives of the '94 Crime Bill, probably so on, probably so forth.
Just 'cause a smaller fraction of the settler majority don’t doesn’t suddenly make it all sweet. Talk like that is giving real “#notallmen” in this moment, and… If we don’t fuck with that, we shouldn’t be fuckin with “#notallwhites” or “#notallisraelis”. My 2c on the matter of ‘essentialism’.
Strategic essentialism
Honestly, I’m having a hard time seeing how it’s ‘essentialism’ when I’m decrying things that white folk never stopped doing– if anything, they just found sneakier ways to go about the same objectives of Manifest Destiny, the same objectives of Intentionally-Downed-Reconstruction, the same objectives of Jim Crow, the same objectives of the '94 Crime Bill, probably so on, probably so forth.
Just 'cause a smaller fraction of the settler majority don’t doesn’t suddenly make it all sweet. Talk like that is giving real “#notallmen” in this moment, and… If we don’t fuck with that, we shouldn’t be fuckin with “#notallwhites” or “#notallisraelis”. My 2c on the matter of ‘essentialism’.