White women: don't. "drawing parallels btw my research [on racism &sexism] and my experience as a childfree woman" http://health.howstuffworks.com/pregnancy-and-parenting/adults-who-choose-not-have-kids-inspire-moral-outrage.htm?utm_campaign=sf&hsw=facebook&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social#mkcpgn=rssnws1 …
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This white person is positioning herself in an oppressed position through false equivalencies. Clearly doesn't understand race politics.
Exactly. Yet she is an "expert" on racism studies. She's not unique in this regard. Science is set up to allow this type of bias to continue
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Many academics are too. As if getting your PhD in Renaissance art makes you an expert on connecting POC to contemporary art work.
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1/2 Great point! Prof Jill Milroy talks about how White researchers use knowledge of Indigenous people to get their PhDs & become "experts"
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2/2 But Indigenous people don't get PhDs nor prestige, even though it's their knowledge that White people assume to gain their degrees.
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Your wonderful thread shows a huge challenge w pop reports on academia; critical thought lost Someone should have called foul on her work
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