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It's Pablo-matic

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Deference is currently ubiquitous; it's there in every demand that white leftists "sit down and shut up" when black people begin talking, that television executives hire queer people to tell queer stories, that first-generation college students run seminar discussions on Marx. In such a politics, we "defer" to people who appear "to fit a social category associated with some form of oppression" on the assumption that they have some sort of privileged experience of that oppression and thus have privileged access to correct diagnoses of, and good strategies for dismantling, the evils in question. - Nicholas Whittaker, Review of Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else) by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, The Point, Issue 28, Fall 2022. I wrote most of this before I saw the show, partly because I had a train of thought on the subject the other evening and started making notes, but also because the opening reviews made it abundantly clear that the show had little to o

It's Pablo-matic It's Pablo-Matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby - Brooklyn Museum - June 2 - September 24, 2023 Brooklyn Museum Deference is currently ubiquitous; it's there in every demand that white leftists "sit down and shut up" when black people begin talking, that television executives hire queer people to tell queer stories, that first-generation college students run seminar discussions on Marx. In such a politics, we "defer" to people who appear "to fit a social category associated with some form of oppression" on the assumption that they have some sort of privileged experience o

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