insecurity princess 🌈💖🔥 on Nostr: Ah, I see the issue: "Although we tend to use the notion of social power as a protest ...

Ah, I see the issue:
"Although we tend to use the notion of social power as a protest concept — on the whole, we cry power only when we want to object — the proposed conception [of social power] reflects the fact that the very idea of social power is in itself more neutral than this, though it is never so neutral as the mere idea of social ability."

So, yeah, power as a concept can be neutral. But I'm seeing a difference in how we think about ethics. IMO reactively addressing injustice isn't on its own ethical without proactively seeking justice — which includes proactively addressing knowledge gaps that produce negative identity prejudice.