tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1840044689402718651.post8462048873577363791..comments2023-10-02T00:48:41.996-07:00Comments on decolonizing solidarity: solidarity across sameness or difference?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1840044689402718651.post-40107027388549795352011-04-25T12:47:21.143-07:002011-04-25T12:47:21.143-07:00In general, there seems to be a delicate balance, ...In general, there seems to be a delicate balance, living in the tension between sameness and difference. Recognizing our basic sameness as human creatures, and particular kinds of sameness in experience, formation, perspective, helps us to access a real understanding of shared humanity. But we can't allow the sameness to blind us to real, significant, and often enriching differences, which need to be honored as well. Others are not only valuable and worthy of my solidarity, friendship, and interest insofar as they are like me. They are also valuable in their particularity and in their otherness itself, the things that make them different.<br /><br />I'll be interested to see how you articulate some of your new thinking, Sara!Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09283779374544990744noreply@blogger.com