(from Johnson’s “What It All Has to Do with Us”, pg. 77-78)
- Misleading to think individualistically because it boxes us in and narrows our views of reality.
- Keeps us stuck in trouble by making it so hard to talk about it.
- Example: encourages women to blame and distrust men
- Makes us blind to the very existence of privilege, because privilege has nothing to do with individuals, only with the social categories we wind up in.
- Assumes that everything has only to do with individuals and nothing to do with social categories, leaving no room to see, much less consider, the role of privilege.
- Results in a kind of paralysis; to get rid of this paralysis we have to realize that the individualistic model is wrong, and the social world consists of more than individuals.
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