“In an educational model built upon the idea of teaching tolerance, where tolerance is an acceptable, even ideal, endpoint, the trope of witnessing for the purpose of understanding violence or ‘hate’ in a universal humanizing sense, not as a manifestation of structure of power and deprivations, hesitates to meaningfully engage students/viewers/experiencers in their own relationship to those structures,”
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“the trope of witnessing”
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Don’t you love that? She lifts Christian terminology, but it’s a trope . . . just a common pattern . . .