QUOTE: Those who have grown accustomed to hegemony — the unquestioned dominance of one’s own group and its perspective — experience pluralism as oppression. To share when you’ve never had to do so is a burden. It feels like loss: of position, of prestige, of normalcy.
That such ecumenism would still leave dominant group members with the lion’s share of power matters not. What matters is that their dominance would be less totalizing than before. And the slippage is what portends doom. Any diminution of control signals that the matriarchy is upon us, or the “homocracy,” or Sharia law, or “white genocide.”
Power and privilege render their recipients fragile, incapable of adaptation. While the marginalized have developed ways to survive and even thrive despite the obstacles, the favored have nurtured no such skills. And having failed to do so, they now find themselves ill-prepared for the world as it is.
It would be humorous were it not so tragic.
To miss the difference between organizing for inclusion and organizing for continued domination is astounding.
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