no it's just that joking about racism is taken as evidence of racism
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where "racism" is seen as an innate quality of a person that necessarily defines their conduct
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rather than specific instances of actual harm committed against others
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incidentally foucault identifies this kind of pathologization (racism as inherent pervasive flaw rather than bad behavior)..
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...as cause of the rise of sexual minority politics, when the idea shifts from "sodomy" (a simple vice) to "homosexuality"..
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...(an illness to be treated, and later an affinity label to organize around)
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notice how a similar organizing principle sustains AA, the notion of the inborn, immutable "alcoholic"
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or how sleeping around/multiple marriage (practices) are now defended in terms of inherent polyamory (identity)
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also this is why discourse about pedophilia as a mental illness rather than a crime/unforgivable act should be stamped out
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