celebratedrecluse wrote on March 1, 2019 at 9:38 PM

Reply to comment by An_Old_Big_Tree in Need advice. My partners 13 year old has started using words like Thot ( for a laugh ) , one of many alt/right things she's picking up from friends. How would you deal with this ? by Glenarchist

Ironically, othering and alienation are central to the revolutionary identity & experience, particularly on the left & post-left.

Without othering, we'd be doomed to subsumption into liberalism, which is itself another system of othering.

#otherception

An_Old_Big_Tree wrote on March 1, 2019 at 10:48 PM

I don't think that othering is equivalent to differentiating, which it seems you're talking about here.

I think of the other as something relatively opaque, and there are quite a few consequences of that.

celebratedrecluse wrote on March 2, 2019 at 11:03 PM

Sure, but it can be a fine line between othering & differentiating, especially with the social conditioning we are all privy to from dominant society that predisposes/biases us toward both depending on the context.

I don't disagree with you, I guess I'm just thinking out loud about all the nuances. :)