greentea

greentea wrote

For me it was growing up in South Africa and witnessing the general messiness of state discourse trying to scoop up and hastily "correct" undesirable narratives, moving from apartheid, to "rainbow nation" non racialism, to trying to co-opt outside resistances around land, all the while doing everything possible to participate in global capitalism.

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greentea wrote

Actually, I take even more of an issue with Chomsky's linguistics than his politics. His whole thing with generative grammar is blatantly colonial and structured in such a way that renders linguists (university elites) authorities and gate-keepers over 'correct' language use, wrestling linguistic control from [so called 'native'] speakers

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greentea wrote

I like the part about work being done to portray sexwork better, but also I think the choice of the title as " “comfort consultant” is a bad decision, due to the euphemistic use of "comfort" in "comfort women" (makes it jarring to be placed before "consultant" which to me feels like a mostly late-capitalist type of profession)

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