A Response to Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation by Laboria Cuboniks

The group Laboria Cuboniks points a damning finger at the status quo. Intolerant white men working the capitalist system being the primary culprits for oppressing and exploiting the female and queer. However, she balances the status quo by placing responsibility on the oppressed and exploited to recognize that it is up to them to construct change. 
XF considers and encompasses everything. It is big and consuming. For all to approach the world and every situation in it with transcendence, utopia would have been achieved. 
The Cuboniks’ ideas can be boiled down and found in current religious beliefs but it is man’s pride and/or greed that skew the original meanings or has caused complete memory loss.  Love one another; do not judge yet you shall be judged; live and let live; and worry about yourself all come to mind yet all of these messages go ignored. The culprits are mostly unaware and clueless; always defensive, jockeying for first position.
The only thing new is technology and how it plays a role within and outside realities. There is freedom to voice concern and opinions that otherwise would not be heard. There is opportunity for growth through the exposure that has not previously existed. 

Nature is not unjust. Nature needs to be understood. This is the great problem we are tasked with in order to create a better world.

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