Open political discussion blurred the line between personal morality and structural critique

Evidence

Since activists had decided to let seemingly unsurmountable problems into the realm of discussable reality, they were not sure where to stop. All aspects of everyday life were up for questioning, making someone wonder aloud if it was environmentally wasteful even to use paper for writing letters to politicians and leaflets! It was difficult to sift between issues of personal morality, like paper use and driving, and the ones that addressed issues in a more structural way. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 1246

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Critique that begins in politics must end in foundational moral principles; Politics is the transgression of taboos rather than the forward movement of reason — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 33; Communitarian moral rhetoric masks a project of disciplining individuals (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Politics is the transgression of taboos rather than the forward movement of reason #complicates (0.80) — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 33
• Communitarian moral rhetoric masks a project of disciplining individuals #complicates (0.75)
• Critiques conducted within political discourse reinforce the system they claim to scrutinize #complicates (0.75) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 446
• Immediacy personalism repudiates the collective and generalizing work that critique requires #expands (0.74) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 245
• Critique that begins in politics must end in foundational moral principles #qualifies (0.72)