Devin Zane Shaw

“Beauvoir, however, argues that evaluating the violence of the oppressed requires situating it against the violence of the oppressor. In a situation that is oppressive, oppression itself is already violent. Thus emancipatory violence must be gauged against the emancipatory goals of the oppressed and the violence of oppression.”
― Devin Zane Shaw, Philosophy of Antifascism: Punching Nazis and Fighting White Supremacy

“notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare the existence is absurd is to deny that it can ever be given a meaning; to say that it is ambiguous is to assert that its meaning is never fixed and that it must be constantly won” (Beauvoir [1947] 1976, 129).”
― Devin Zane Shaw, Philosophy of Antifascism: Punching Nazis and Fighting White Supremacy