Vox Distorts Transcript and Enables Others to Spread Misleading Info

I definitely agree that intersectionality should be considered as part of being in our society, understanding (to the degree that we familiarize ourselves with their stories) that there are people who share some similar experiences (often hardships) as part of a minority group- and not that we can make blanket declarations that all members of said group have lived the same basic life, and it needs to be accounted for/corrected for via a set of policies.

I think when Sam talked about imagining the world as we would want it to be, as if we didn't know who we would be within it, he wants to make a societal leap through sheer force of the well-intentioned will of some- instead of the long slog that is going to be necessary due to the weight of our history (distant right through to 5 seconds ago).

When someone says, "I know there's all this bad history, horrible stories of terror and oppression, but now we all think that was bad, so let's move on", it strikes me as the privilege of being someone who not only hasn't personally felt the shock waves that have redounded into the present, but also can't imagine that others have.

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