Comments on: interesting blogs on oppression http://anarchocyclist.ca/2007/10/31/interesting-blogs-on-oppression/ on cycling, politics, and life Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:02:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Juan Carlos http://anarchocyclist.ca/2007/10/31/interesting-blogs-on-oppression/comment-page-1/#comment-100363 Juan Carlos Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:58:13 +0000 http://anarchocyclist.ca/2007/10/31/interesting-blogs-on-oppression/#comment-100363 Chris, if I'm right in my assumption that you are white then you are proving the point. You expect everything to be your way, the white way, if somebody "uses so many words" to tell you that you are racist, suddenly you can't understand. Let's try this: prejudice+power=racism. Is it better? Sometimes getting out of our own little boxes helps to look at the big picture. Chris, if I’m right in my assumption that you are white then you are proving the point. You expect everything to be your way, the white way, if somebody “uses so many words” to tell you that you are racist, suddenly you can’t understand. Let’s try this: prejudice+power=racism. Is it better?

Sometimes getting out of our own little boxes helps to look at the big picture.

]]> By: Chris http://anarchocyclist.ca/2007/10/31/interesting-blogs-on-oppression/comment-page-1/#comment-100255 Chris Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:37:37 +0000 http://anarchocyclist.ca/2007/10/31/interesting-blogs-on-oppression/#comment-100255 To be honest, this uses so many words in senses other than what I expect that I find it very hard to understand. It gives me the feeling that the author is more interested in getting away with calling people names (you're a racist! Oh but you can't be mad because I don't mean what you think I do) than in communication. It may be that the additional context provided by the rest of the book makes it much more obvious what is going on. I hope so, because ignoring context for the sake of getting away with saying shocking things - or otherwise encouraging misunderstanding - is one of my less favourite conversational devices. To be honest, this uses so many words in senses other than what I expect that I find it very hard to understand. It gives me the feeling that the author is more interested in getting away with calling people names (you’re a racist! Oh but you can’t be mad because I don’t mean what you think I do) than in communication. It may be that the additional context provided by the rest of the book makes it much more obvious what is going on. I hope so, because ignoring context for the sake of getting away with saying shocking things - or otherwise encouraging misunderstanding - is one of my less favourite conversational devices.

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