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A review by asiaroth
White Tears / Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad
5.0
“People are fond of describing forward-thinking people as
"ahead of their time." This is a mischaracterization that fuels a false belief in an inherently linear social progress where positive change is inevitable. As much as Lorde's words seem prescient today, it would do her a disservice to describe her this way. No one is really ahead of their time. If anything, such people are exactly of their time because they have the capacity to diagnose the maladies of their era and prescribe the remedies. The problem is just how stubbornly resistant to this medicine the rest of us are: it's not merely that we are behind them, it's that we all too often resent those bold thinkers for what they tell us about our society and ourselves. And our response is to either ignore or silence them.”
"ahead of their time." This is a mischaracterization that fuels a false belief in an inherently linear social progress where positive change is inevitable. As much as Lorde's words seem prescient today, it would do her a disservice to describe her this way. No one is really ahead of their time. If anything, such people are exactly of their time because they have the capacity to diagnose the maladies of their era and prescribe the remedies. The problem is just how stubbornly resistant to this medicine the rest of us are: it's not merely that we are behind them, it's that we all too often resent those bold thinkers for what they tell us about our society and ourselves. And our response is to either ignore or silence them.”