"There is a huge difference between a group or coalition deciding to voluntarily absent themselves from a shared space in order to highlight their vital and underappreciated roles... and a group encouraging another group to go away. The first is a forceful call to consciousness, which is... crippling to the logic of oppression. The second is a show of force, and an act of oppression in and of itself."
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Letter to the Evergreen State College faculty (March, 2017) objecting to the "Day of Absence" change, requesting white students and faculty to stay at home, rather than the minority race participants remaining at home to highlight the minority's contributions. See Leonard Payne, A Glitch in the Matrix: Jordan Peterson and the Intellectual Dark Web (2019) p. 67.
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