A group hasn't earned equality until they get held responsible for faults just as much as they are praised for their successes. If you reframe bad behavior as "not their fault", then what does it actually mean when you cheer them for accomplishments?
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What does it mean to hold a demographic category responsible for faults, or praise it for successes?
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For example: when women value trad gender roles, people often describe this as the fault of men, like women just absorbed male thinking, instead of fully assigning her responsibility for it.
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I feel a bit of a straw man here. To understand there are underlying systemic impacts that make certain choices harder for some individuals then others is not excusing personal choice. And frankly most minorities are still held to a higher standard and harshly judged for failures
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Sure - but for example, I've seen the agency of black people who disagree with dominant black thought dismissed by ascribing the actual power to white people - calling them whitewashed or something.
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Agreed. We do not hold the privileged of society enough at fault for their bad behavior. We need to start having more honest about the two-tiered justice system in America.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_v.
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What positive impact do you get for holding somebody responsible for a mistake?
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No group must needs earn equality. To suggest so inverts the universality of the egalitarian obligation:
To treat groups equally, regarding them as having consistent responsibility, respect, and esteem.
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