I think that is the performative aspect of it. The motivation for many people and what is being signalled. But underlying it is primarily cultural constructivism and the idea that discourses construct reality.
-
-
Whereas a rational, universal liberalism which objected to racism & sexism was steadily eroding it, If people thought racist, sexist things, they kept them to themselves in public and so the prejudices were not part of mainstream discourse and were steadily decreasing.
-
I think they could have been all but eradicated in my lifetime except for a few die-hard extremists if it weren't for intersectionality making identification of supposedly prejudiced attitudes an everyday occurrence again - bringing race & gender back into mainstream discourse.
-
And the disproportionate responses embolden the bigots. If anti-racists are going to be pilloried for saying 'coloured' rather than 'black' or 'of colour', actual racists might as well say black people are inferior. When every white person is racist, the actual racists can own it
-
"the longer they talk about identity politics, I got ’em. I want them to talk about racism every day." Steve Bannon
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.