Thursday, February 09, 2017
Fetishizing Dissent
As Andrea Jain writes in The Revolution Will Not Be Fetishized,
“There is a difference between gestural subversion and collective
resistance.” Buying politically correct brands “without actually doing
anything to prevent inequality and oppression,” she observes, “is
generous, but it does not quite qualify as activism.” Fetishizing
dissent, she says, is for those unwilling to make a commitment to
opposing patriarchal, capitalist, white supremacy.
