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30839, RE: Because white people assume their opinions to be authoritative
Posted by sunngodd, Thu Apr-21-05 02:10 PM
>And that the perspective from which they are addressing an
>issue to be normative, neither of which is ever necessarily
>the case, but both of which they assume are the case merely by
>the way they are socialized.

You're making a huge generalization here, this point can't be proven or disproven.

>Moreover, you cannot separate an idea from the perspective and
>assumptions that undergird it.

I agree, i'm just saying that that you can't adress underlying perspectives and assumptions as a way to dismiss the idea rather than cosidering the ideal on it's merits.

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