Repair v. Reparations
*Transcript cleaned by [Kaitlyn Gastineau]
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what happens if we
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no longer invested in
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the concept of broken what is a normal body
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what what what should be repaired and
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why
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uh and who benefits from the repair
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what happens if we just think about
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something moving to a different state of
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existence
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is there some way not to recuperate
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difference
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in some way that connotes value so when
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you were talking about repair I thought
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oh to me repair is like a fundamentally
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pessimistic position
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because it assumes deficit
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right and the best you can do
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is to achieve normativity the idea of
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like
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uh
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racial repairs you know to make everyone
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become
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white men right that's that's that's the
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ultimate reparative action to not
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repair something is inherently a failure
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uh but
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is there a way to say that
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not repairing something can be success
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I don't need to be fixed I'm moving over
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here
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wow
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yeah I think reparations is terrifying
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to people because there is the
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possibility
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that people could actually end up with
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more than you that is the real fear
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that not only will they have as much but
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they could get more and that's so
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existentially
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terrifying and I think reparations does
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not repair as you say it's the
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possibility of somebody
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actually receiving what they need
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which could be more than what other
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people have