Does this also apply when someone say: expressing X has consequences and is damaging/dangerous?
The idea that a white individual could hear different discourses around race, involve herself in them, assess them, make own arguments? No.
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So, ultimately, the disagreement comes down to a different view of human nature and how society works.
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Yes, exactly. Whether you see individuals engaging with a range of ideas & the best ones winning or systems of power deciding which ones win
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Of course, there is something in the latter. The views of the majority do become accepted as the norm. But they change.
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There is resistance to accepting that the zeitgeist changes via the free expression of ideas & new, minority ideas gaining acceptance.
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You see it when, for eg, ppl insist feminists or the Civil Rights Movement changed society single-handedly by means of activism.
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They get angry if you suggest they increased discussion but society as a whole changed & that is how the change became the norm.
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Yes, the debate started much earlier with Wollstonecraft, Bentham, Mill and Harriet Taylor Mill.
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Yes, exactly. The ideas were ripening & they came into fruition in the 60s.
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She either adopts the critical race theory view & uses it to dismantle her own racism (imperfectly) or she perpetuates the racist discourse.
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