Ah, I think I better understand your point now. It's like when someone says "every culture in the world has had vampires" without regard for the word itself and all the contemporary associations coming out of an intensely European context, and without regard for how that flattens all those other traditions and makes them only visible insofar as they match up to a pre-existing assumed white "norm." Just one more example of inscribing whiteness as a universal norm, even if using bodies of color to do it.
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Ah, I think I better understand your point now. It's like when someone says "every culture in the world has had vampires" without regard for the word itself and all the contemporary associations coming out of an intensely European context, and without regard for how that flattens all those other traditions and makes them only visible insofar as they match up to a pre-existing assumed white "norm." Just one more example of inscribing whiteness as a universal norm, even if using bodies of color to do it.