tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578125528475198742.post6932565257798952573..comments2023-05-11T03:06:59.054-07:00Comments on The Well Run Dry: The Duty Of Active CitizenshipTH in SoChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00483293929968668475noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578125528475198742.post-47244854925349069922017-07-08T21:52:37.714-07:002017-07-08T21:52:37.714-07:00Hello Aimee,
Thanks very much for your comment. I...Hello Aimee,<br />Thanks very much for your comment. I do want to avoid victim blaming, as it's not a victim's fault that an oppressor chooses to oppress. However, the key for the victim to escape victimhood lies in the choice of the victim, and that is the lesson that many theorists and practitioners of civil resistance seek to drive home in order to activate oppressed populations to resist. Lately, I have been talking a lot about the Biblical view of civil resistance, because I think the mainstream white American evangelical church has sold most of us a false bill of goods on this subject. I also want to show victims that they do have the choice to resist, and that there are specific, entirely moral acts of resistance that they can take.TH in SoChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00483293929968668475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7578125528475198742.post-22407844796769821932017-07-06T19:05:18.170-07:002017-07-06T19:05:18.170-07:00I cannot tell you how much i appreciate your learn...I cannot tell you how much i appreciate your learned and lucid writing. Thank you. Although Christianity is only one of the lenses through which I approach understanding, it is the lens through which I engage with many others, including most of those who are also active in trying to create a better, more just and peaceful world. I am sending this post on to my pastor and to some friends of mine who will appreciate it. Some of the ideas here might be seen as a bit "problematic" to some in my circle, in that they might be interpreted as "victim blaming," but that is not how I see it. To me, the idea that we have (in some ways) willingly relinquished our power over our own destinies, in exchange for release from the burden of being active, responsible moral agents , reminds me of the ideas of Simone de Beauvoir, as she wrote them down in the book the Second Sex. She suggested that women, historically, had made a similar trade, and in doing so had resigned themselves to the position of "other" in their own lives. That work was seminal for me and I am excited to read your suggestions here to see how others have elaborated them. Aimeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06358194304460170717noreply@blogger.com