Looooool https://twitter.com/finegodmother/status/1260369073231314946">https://twitter.com/finegodmo...
Once a connotation, always a connotation in a mindset that believes structural inequalities are socialized into us through the magic of language.
*unnecessary sensitivity intensifies*
What& #39;s really fascinating here is that the implied racist connotation to "master bedroom" is believable but not even likely to be accurate. That won& #39;t matter. If something *can be construed* to uphold systems of power (through language), that is enough. https://www.trelora.com/blog/2018/07/master-bedroom-origin/">https://www.trelora.com/blog/2018...
This is the heart of problematization: it isn& #39;t just finding real problematics; it& #39;s also identifying imaginary ones through the ways that words are understood under multiple meanings. This is quintessential critical postmodernist bullshit. https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-problematize/">https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-prob...
The second you realize that you literally don& #39;t have to know what you& #39;re talking about to problematize, and in some ways it& #39;s better if you don& #39;t (going viral for being wrong spreads your idea like crazy), you& #39;ll understand why Critical Social Justice is the wrong way to socjus.
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