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Coser’s view, there is no community until differences are acknowledged within it. Teamwork, for instance, does not acknowledge differences in privilege or power, and so is a weak form of community; all the members of the work team are supposed to share a common motivation, and precisely that assumption weakens real communication. Strong bonding between people means engaging over time their differences.
The Corrosion of Character
Richard Sennett
As they carried on along and met more people Furlong did and did not know, he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another? Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, the decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there and yet call yourself a Christian, and face yourself in the mirror?
Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan
The movement to make Black lives matter does not deny that racism exists for other nonwhite peoples, nor does it say that white people don’t matter. Rather, the #BlackLivesMatter movement points out that the experiences of Black people with the police in the United States provides the sharpest and clearest view for understanding how racism and white supremacy operate institutionally and in our day-to-day experiences. To put it a bit differently, __if we want to understand the realities of racism and police violence, the relatively privileged and shielded perspectives of white people will yield us less sharp, less clear, and less truthful perspectives on how the police operate to support institutionalized racism and white supremacy.__ In this way, rather than a call for a form of relativism, a standpoint is perhaps better conceived as a tool that allows, following Hartsock, for “the creation of better (more objective, more liberatory) accounts of the world.”
A Marxist Education
Wayne Au
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