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Originally Posted by itshotinvegas
It's actually worse. They're saying a person's racial identity is part of their consciousness, and unconsciousness.
That can be true though, even if it gets a little Jungian.
I mean I don't believe in "racial memory" or anything of that nature. But Jungian ideas of a collective unconscious are pretty fun.*
But there's still a more grounded way this can be true and not be saying anything too bad, assuming that they're theorizing that some form of racial consciousness is socially conditioned-- which seems fine.
It's still not anything close to race essentialism, even if the overall import of the ideology is just that.
*In Jungian parlance "racial memories" don't actually have anything to do with race but rather make up the collective unconscious, so I mispoke a bit there.
Last edited by Luckbox Inc; 03-15-2021 at 06:53 PM.