Jessica Rooster@rooster@beige.party
@FinalGirl@blackqueer.life @oldladyplays@wargamers.social they are decrying the loss of legitimacy and impartiality of an institution that for many never had legitimacy or impartiality to begin with
FoolishOwl@foolishowl@social.coop
@rooster@beige.party @FinalGirl@blackqueer.life @oldladyplays@wargamers.social I've thought "legitimacy" is a critical concept to understand. It's a spiritual concept that is rarely understood as that.
Liberals insist on the legitimacy of the state because to question whether "legitimacy" means anything triggers an existential crisis. Their entire worldview collapses.
This is why they can acknowledge "structural racism" as an abstract concept, but balk at the conclusion that the entire history and structure of states is bound up with it.