People don't quicken their steps or lock their car doors because of my Jewish shadow; doctors don't discount my body's capacity to feel pain, and assailants don't calculate that no one with power will come looking for me if they do me harm. And yet, as we have seen, the need for perfect likenesses can easily obscure commonalities—and, as importantly, short-circuit potential solidarities.

XREF: Connects to intersectionality frameworks and critiques of 'perfect likenesses' in identity-politics solidarity, echoing feminist and critical race theory discussions. SEED: Could seed an essay on how demands for identical victimhood undercut coalition-building across different forms of oppression.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 929