Is it not? To me it sounds rather like "Well, on some level we're all disabled. I'd like to run a marathon, but I'll never be able to." (http://rivka.livejournal.com/305457.html?thread=4498225#t4498225)
I certainly don't mean that in these conversations we should formally start talking like teachers and students. What I mean is something more like: there are conversations in which everyone brings roughly the same amount to share, like, say, in your average conversation about the movie the group just saw, or about a recent action of the state government, or something. And then there are conversations in which it becomes clear, or should, that some people in the conversation have information which the other people do not have. In that case, it seems to me that the intelligent thing for the other people to do is to shift into more of an information-sucking-up mode than in an ordinary conversation, in which, I assume, people like to talk more. This doesn't just have to be about racism, of course, and I don't think every conversation about racism has to go this way.
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Date: 2006-06-04 07:28 pm (UTC)I certainly don't mean that in these conversations we should formally start talking like teachers and students. What I mean is something more like: there are conversations in which everyone brings roughly the same amount to share, like, say, in your average conversation about the movie the group just saw, or about a recent action of the state government, or something. And then there are conversations in which it becomes clear, or should, that some people in the conversation have information which the other people do not have. In that case, it seems to me that the intelligent thing for the other people to do is to shift into more of an information-sucking-up mode than in an ordinary conversation, in which, I assume, people like to talk more. This doesn't just have to be about racism, of course, and I don't think every conversation about racism has to go this way.