File spoon-archives/third-world-women.archive/third-world-women_1996/96-06-05.103, message 17


Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 23:32:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Aravinda  Pillalamarri <ap191-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: alterism



Saadia --

	I wonder if perhaps alterist is similar to racist or sexist or 
specicist... that is, not sympathetic to what I had earlier characterized 
as "alterity" at all but enforcing a dogmatic distinction between self 
and other, so that "before" the text in question "addressed" otherness, 
it (sorry for the quotes but I gotta do it) "already" set off the other 
in order to reinforce those stereotypes to which you referred in your 
quotation.  

	tell me if you like this line of thought and I amy try to develop it 
further.

			-- Aravinda

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