Guest Post: Why Can't We Play With Ethnicity?
On the embattled category of ethno-fluidity
"As we all know, Cracks in PoMo is "pro-sin but anti-normalizing it." Which is to say, we recognize that certain behaviors ought to be considered taboo...but that it is only natural for people to break them once in a while. Thus, I find it frustrating how our society--which struggles to deal with moral gray areas and to recognize that 2 things can be true at once--demonizes ethnofluidity and lauds gender fluidity...when both are forms of decadent, amoral playfulness which belong in spaces of "anti-structure." Many thanks to Mary Harrington for inviting me to write about this for her Substack!"
Stephen G. Adubato is a New York-based writer, a professor of philosophy, and author of the Cracks In Postmodernity Substack. I find his work consistently sharp and provocative. So I’m pleased to publish this guess essay by Stephen, exploring a question that often pops up in social-media slop discourse but rarely gets a more thoughtful treatment: why can you identify as …
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