This post captures the tenor of the times. "Suddenly, everywhere, it seems like care trumps structure," writes Hannah McGregor. Maintaining academic rigidity seems out of touch with the current environment. Still, "feelings, especially feelings that cluster around the concepts of compassion, empathy, and care, can be used as justification for great violence." And "care as deployed by corporations or by the state in the interests of oppressive systems will not save us." We need to be careful how we wield the ethics of care. "We need to be suspicious when institutions claim to care, and when care is being used to maintain, rather than dismantle, fundamentally dehumanizing systems."
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