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the danger of professional hierarchies

Posted by in solidarity with kids on 2012-August-22 06:37:12, Wednesday
In reply to Kill the messenger? posted by evaluator on 2012-August-18 12:37:54, Saturday

is that they tend to uncritically replicate demands to follow rigid ways of doing things. Thus, one is either "mature" or "immature", and to "be mature" one must defer to the convention which comes directly from the domination paradigm. A curious phenomenon when argued in free spirits community!

And then there's the fancy buttoned words. (yes, I do try my hand at a few of my own--largely thanks to years of challenge to the academically-challenged!). And the demand to "civilized" speech--namely, epithets and other warfare dressed up in high f'lutin' terminology meant to steer clear of 'the lesser classes' as anyone (in conventional professional circles) must do if he is to keep the proverbial Upper Hand. And keep the less articulate (in such orthodox ways of relating) in Their Proper Place.

All that said, I do agree with you on the problem of "killing" the messenger, so to speak. But if professionals are serious about understanding oppressed people (of any stripe) they ought to promote understanding and explorations into why people tend to fire off "invective", and empathize with such painful types of response, don't you agree?


Alas, we're all human here (as far as I know; there might be an 'I,Robot' amongst us...heh heh!), and we're all apt to reflect the stress of daring to even speak up in this day. The more we see such in each other the more we will see our commonalities, rather than perpetual difference.

Having said that, I maintain that critiques (of institutionalized mindset for example) are part and parcel of the commonality process, ultimately at least!

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