Producing sameness requires creating and externalizing difference

Evidence

The creation and promotion of difference is the necessary condition of reproducing homogenized sameness; and (re-)producing homogen - eity necessarily promotes the externalization of difference to produce its effect. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 20

Categorization

• XREF: Chimes with the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ article logic where boundary-marking creates the identity it polices. — connects to: Repetition necessarily alters what it repeats — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 721; A people fails to emerge under both excessive difference and total equivalence — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 392; Difference is a generative relationship, not a fixed property of things — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 309 (+1 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: A genuinely counterintuitive dialectical claim worth sitting with: homogeneity is not the absence of difference but its active production.

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• Heterogeneity precedes and even prompts claims to purity, not merely negates them. (similarity 0.79)
• Racial homogenization is the necessary precondition for objectification and enmity (similarity 0.78)