"Extension of individual rights amounts to an extension not an attenuation of coercion: it calls for a reinforcement of the police function to contain the consequences of inequality…
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"Communitarian empowerment of 'ethnic' and gender pluralities presupposes and fixes a given distribution of identities' in a radically dynamic society…
"'Empowerment' legitimises the potential tyranny of the local or particular community in its relations with its members and at the boundary with competing interests. It is the abused who become the abusers…
"no one and no community is exempt from the paradoxes of 'empowerment'." ~Gillian Rose via @poetryforsupper.bsky.social