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- The Etymology Exercise: Tracing "Privilege" to Its Root & What the Root Can't Tell You
An assignment sends you to a word's Indo-European root. Privilege comes apart into private and law, and the derivative list shows why a root is not a meaning.
- Systems Don't Have Intentions: A Response to the Framework I Kept Resisting
I argued for weeks with a framework that locates harm in structures, not intent. My own class notes contained the diagnostic I refused to run on myself.