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I think profiling white/people as universally ignorant to minorities’ issues is just a typical stereotype. Yes, there will be ignorant and disruptive individual
by cromka 6y ago
I think profiling white/people as universally ignorant to minorities’ issues is just a typical stereotype. Yes, there will be ignorant and disruptive individuals, but ban them selectively. One by one. Lumping everyone into “they don’t get it” is like admitting white people are a lost cause, and reinforces “us vs them” combative narrative, playing right into the hand of alt right.
In a similar fashion, the feminist movement can be like that. Or it can be like they did it in Iceland, for example, where (speaking from memory) women pushed a legislation to mandate for women to hold no less than a 40% board seats in public companies. BUT they also made it so that it also applied to men.
So, at the end of the day, it’s just political extremism. They come and go, as the social pendulum swings from left to right and back.
- aksss 6y agoThe only way it swings back is when there’s room to openly criticize. The opportunities and venues for that are shrinking and the costs growing.