To clarify what I mean, we could just say "hate" instead of "affective distaste" but I want to emphasize the conscious + emotional aspect.
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For example, we say that the classic "dogs and firehoses" images of racism during the Movement were motivated by conscious, emotional hate.
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And I think thanks to how we mainstreamed the ideas of the civil rights movement in our culture...
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we tend to define racism/sexism according to that rubric: an active, conscious, negative emotional response to an identity group.
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and the point I'm trying to make is, that active emotional response is less important than ideas/assumptions/institutions/structures, etc.
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(okay I'm done your turn, lol)
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