tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post1493391895564534741..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: Allyshipping NewsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-15859220644588508842016-11-14T06:24:47.003-05:002016-11-14T06:24:47.003-05:00We need a better sociology, leading to a better po...We need a better sociology, leading to a better politics. People are manifestly NOT guided by "self-interest". The poor vote for those who make them poorer, the women for those who despise them, the ill for those who deprive them of health care, the young for those who send them to war...And they do so repeatedly - in Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Kansas....People have multiple, often conflicting identities whose salience shifts with time and opportunity and social perspective.<br /><br />Maybe the construction of a different pole of attraction?Peter Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13289172253358199028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-28908741267588671052016-11-13T23:29:52.140-05:002016-11-13T23:29:52.140-05:00Trying to solve the enormous breadth and depth of ...Trying to solve the enormous breadth and depth of embedded racism in society through interpersonal dynamics is an invitation to weird stuff indeed. Guilt works pretty well as a motivator in certain (relatively) protected settings like universities, but I worry that it doesn't scale up so well. My understanding of allyship -- though of course I would be happy to be corrected -- is that its underlying motivation is guilt over being on the long end of injustice. That's not an entirely bad or inappropriate thing, but I suspect it's a loser at the level of politics.Peter Dormanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00093399591393648071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-61133252841706097912016-11-13T22:52:52.352-05:002016-11-13T22:52:52.352-05:00I wonder if this is at all related to fantasy &quo...I wonder if this is at all related to fantasy "shipping," which has to do with imagining romantic liaisons (relationSHIPS, get it?) between characters in popular TV shows. I stumbled across a twitter thread on this once and I have to say that it is my impression there IS a connection between the etiquette prescribed for allies and 'shipping fan fiction. Frankly, I suspect there might be an affinity with S/M fetish play, where the privileged ally is the submissive and the oppressed intersectional person is the dominatrix, so to speak. <br /><br />Before anyone accuses me of trivializing racialized or gender oppression (or engaging in hate speech), allow me to just state that what I am trying to point out is how a great deal of the intersectional psychobabble trivializes the real, structural racism and sexism by reducing it to a matter of individual behaviors. It's bad social science to start with and descends from there into bad politics. Ineffectual, divisive and ultimately self-defeating. Sandwichmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11159060882083015637noreply@blogger.com