It relates to the question how discrimination is discovered, seen as worth fixing, and to the question whose attention is required to fix it
When people are called coconuts or coons or native informants for holding humanist or liberal values as if they can't belong to them too.
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As if whole world of ideas & art and potential relationships based on shared experiences rather than culturally specific ones are a betrayal
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Some people might see it as a betrayal. My view is that assimilation can make people blind of their own group-based oppression.
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E.g. women of color who have learned to explain their career failures in terms of not-misogyny and not-racism.
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Surely, what's important is whether it *is* misogyny and racism. Shouldn't be a political requirement to think it is or isn't.
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Agreed. But there is pressure from the dominant, universalist majority to disregard such explanations!
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I think this is simplistic. I think a lot of the resistance to seeing racism & sexism etc comes from people seeing it everywhere.
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The terms are losing power because of overuse & misuse. If everything is sexism and racism, nothing is.
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“If everything i X, X is meaningless”—Agreed. However, racism & sexism exist as social phenomena distinct from analyses of cases
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I suppose there is a worry that cultural assimilation of minorities means that individuals will be too complacent for activism.
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If they are complacent, it probably means they're not experiencing problems. Why problematise?
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I wouldn’t say that it has to be problematized, but some people see it as their responsibility to make people aware of phenomena
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Of course. But if someone doesn't see a problem, they can be vilified for not seeing it.
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