Siege poems pursued community integrity through extermination rather than conversion

Evidence

The problem with lauding ”resistance” is that at the country-western clubs, it meant disorientation, racist jokes, dogs trained to bite blacks, unsatisfying weddings, and face-to-face silence. Jokes invoked a commonsense racism, sexism, and feeling of being someone’s market; but resistance to the dominant pieties surrounding race made the group more violent and uninclusive than the sum of its individual members. When the group’s focus is only on reversing and resisting, common meanings must come from elsewhere, unquestioned. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 930 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Poetry propaganda served rulers, rebels, and personal social announcements alike — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 470; Resistance-based solidarity leaves common meanings unexamined and imported from outside — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 930; Siege regimes criminalize opposition and cross-societal solidarity as treason — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 677 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Resistance-based solidarity leaves common meanings unexamined and imported from outside #complicates (0.74) — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 930