In fact, my color-blindness is now a “micro-aggression”, because by refusing to consider race as a valid categorization I “deny the significance of a person of color’s racial/ethnic experience and history” and “deny the individual as a racial/cultural being”, which I suppose causes her pain. — NOS4A2
I don't know why people want to focus on race so much now, but it's been a big mistake in my opinion. — Terrapin Station
'Color-blindness' ignores the history of racial constructionism, which was and continues to be a sociological reality that affects people in ways both material and ideological. The path towards a more equal society is to acknowledge how this racial construction materialized in history, how it manifests itself today, and how it has affected society and its subjects. Ignoring it only serves to perpetuate it and leaves us unable to combat it.
When in the master's house, learn from the master to use the master's tool to master oneself and/or the master himself if one can.
Liberty, as I understand it, demands nothing less.
Historically people have been treated as members of racial groups, convicted of some form or other of essentialism, and treated accordingly. It seems to me prudent to refuse engaging in racism if we want to banish it. — NOS4A2
Accepting the history (and continuance!) of racism, as you acknowledge in this first sentence here, does not mean "engaging in racism". The best way to refuse to engage in racism is to understand how it affects people.
racial constructionism, which was and continues to be a sociological reality that affects people in ways both material and ideological. — Maw
And why are you so counter-woke?So why are we back-peddling on racial color-blindness? Why are we teaching kids to be conscious of another’s race, and to factor it into their judgements and treatment of others? Are we heading backwards? — NOS4A2
And why are you so counter-woke?
You think that those silly woke progressives blabbering about intersectionality etc. are genuinely some kind of a threat to our culture? You really think there is this "assault" against color-blindness, which is there to reinstate racism and racist thought to our time only in a different format? That really people are demanding us to look at each other not as individuals, but first and foremost as members of a race, gender and so one that define us so much that what people actually think doesn't matter?
Why would you believe it?I really do believe it. This is an aspect of racism that now permeates throughout American culture and is spreading, to the point that it has become institutional, manifesting in policies such as “diversity training” for example. It is being taught in school. I’m not sure where you live, but take a peak. — NOS4A2
What exactly is the definition of racial constructionism, how are we confirming that there is such a thing, and how are we confirming its effect on people? — Terrapin Station
This is an aspect of racism that now permeates throughout American culture and is spreading, to the point that it has become institutional, manifesting in policies such as “diversity training” for example. It is being taught in school. — NOS4A2
human bodies no less end up becoming the brick and mortar to their failed schemes, long before the dogma is abandoned — NOS4A2
This is an aspect of racism that now permeates throughout American culture and is spreading, to the point that it has become institutional, manifesting in policies such as “diversity training” for example. It is being taught in school.
— NOS4A2
oh wow — Maw
Feel free to check out Ibram X. Kendi's excellent book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, if you doubt the historicity of racism — Maw
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