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luxury??? what does injustice have to do with it?

Submitted by aaclh on Tue, 11/11/2008 - 4:33pm.

Is it really a luxury to try to identify as a little of both and a little of neither? Isn't it much harder to claim to be both and neither as the same time? Perhaps the luxury mentioned here is a reference to the luxury of having the ability to self-identify.

How does injusticeinfluence (determine?) someone's ability to claim an identity? The more we talk about different categories in this class the more it seems to me that all of these partial injustices stem from the (inability? unwillingness?) of people to recognize that our categories do and do not make sense, they are and are not well-defined, they influence us and we influence them... If this is true then wouldn't the hardest but most productive (in terms of combatting injustice) thing to do is claim being both and neither?

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