This is a very good summary of the era.

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Ultimately, we learned slogans but not solidarity.

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This is also why when we get informed consent on paper in the UK we’ll need to spend the first few years arguing with the NHS like “No, you CALL it informed consent but this person still has power over me and hasn’t been punished for abusing it” before we get ACTUAL informed consent

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It gives me almost... GoFundMe vibes? Here's how best to Market Your Marginalization, to get eyes and ears (and dollars) for your work in the attention economy. Progress is when you convince people to buy indulgences for their Sin of Privilege.

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As I read more and more books and papers and discussions of feminism and solidarity and movement politics, it becomes clear that the didactic energy of the 2010s was effectively neutered by people treating learning about oppression as personal improvement, self-help, and a kind of branding.

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