Klein’s Jewish doubling resembles but is not equivalent to racial and gender doubling

Evidence

People don’t quicken their steps or lock their car doors because of my Jewish shadow; doctors don’t discount my body’s capacity to feel pain, and assailants don’t calculate that no one with power will come looking for me if they do me harm. And yet, as we have seen, the need for perfect likenesses can easily obscure commonalities—and, as importantly, short-circuit potential solidarities. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 929

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the book’s core analytic on how the need for perfect likenesses — exact identity matches — prevents cross-group solidarity; connects to earlier chapters on the Mirror World and its failures of political affinity.