tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post7324437174841488817..comments2024-03-18T15:45:32.866-04:00Comments on bensozia: Henry Louis Gates Jr. against "Staying in Your Lane"Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-43716865283752325722022-04-26T12:54:45.169-04:002022-04-26T12:54:45.169-04:00It strikes me that the idea that you have to write...It strikes me that the idea that you have to write what you know, and that you can't know what it's like to be someone from a different community, is really a form a mystical, sectarian nationalism. Whereas the idea that we can and should "contemplate works of the human imagination across space and time, works created by people who don’t look like us," is the purest liberalism. The fact that, willy-nilly, in the US the former spirit is a form of leftism, should not blind us to the real lack of commonality between that spirit--you can't write about me or my kind, unless you are me or my kind--and genuine liberalism.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14456987412710878404noreply@blogger.com