There’s so much to dive into here, but I really like the fact that you called out higher class dialects. I think that’s a big problem in our world (even in radical scenes). I grew up rurally in a town of 1500 and am currently living rurally again. Not to sound like a classist but if you speak about racism, gender, etc in words that people don’t understand they aren’t going to follow what you’re saying. I’m an educated trades person who studies alone and I don’t even understand half of it! Anyway great article as always.
Thanks for this Peter. So often you are able to put into words, or tease out frameworks to contextualize, thoughts that so far had floated around in me in vagueness and/or confusion up to that point. This is very helpful, yet again.
Thanks, Peter. You are speaking to how I make a living, albeit what I do is not reproducible, which organisations find very irksome. It is very time consuming to build relationships, hear from others, spend time reflecting in affinity groups, and then downright dangerous (to them) to move into how this connects to asylum seekers and the genocide of Palestinians. All the way showing how how white supremacy sucks for everyone. I suspect not many people will hire me to do this but I’m grateful for the couple that do give me that freedom to connect dots and go into deeply uncomfortable places for the white managers.
There’s so much to dive into here, but I really like the fact that you called out higher class dialects. I think that’s a big problem in our world (even in radical scenes). I grew up rurally in a town of 1500 and am currently living rurally again. Not to sound like a classist but if you speak about racism, gender, etc in words that people don’t understand they aren’t going to follow what you’re saying. I’m an educated trades person who studies alone and I don’t even understand half of it! Anyway great article as always.
Thanks for this Peter. So often you are able to put into words, or tease out frameworks to contextualize, thoughts that so far had floated around in me in vagueness and/or confusion up to that point. This is very helpful, yet again.
Great writing, when I get a job I'll pay for more :)
That McDonalds sign setting off my Ai alarms
Thanks, Peter. You are speaking to how I make a living, albeit what I do is not reproducible, which organisations find very irksome. It is very time consuming to build relationships, hear from others, spend time reflecting in affinity groups, and then downright dangerous (to them) to move into how this connects to asylum seekers and the genocide of Palestinians. All the way showing how how white supremacy sucks for everyone. I suspect not many people will hire me to do this but I’m grateful for the couple that do give me that freedom to connect dots and go into deeply uncomfortable places for the white managers.