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Can we call them "segregation initiatives"? I've already seen "separate but equal" thrown around with no apparent sense of irony or awareness that was a catchph
by h2odragon 5y ago
Can we call them "segregation initiatives"? I've already seen "separate but equal" thrown around with no apparent sense of irony or awareness that was a catchphrase once.
- vmception 5y agoI've pointed out that "safe spaces" are a rebranding of "separate but equal", armchair academics often defend it with a strawman argument of the word racist: where convenient, they drop the colloquial overly broad misuse of the term for a technical academic-only definition that includes a power dynamic necessary for exclusion to be racist. Since the beneficiaries of the safe space are not the "power majority" it therefore invalidates any criticism of their exclusionary and toxic behaviors, by that definition. The reason its a strawman argument is that it misses that the federal government prohibits "race-based discrimination", for like 50 years, and never uses the term racist or racism so the definition is clearer than the standard people invented.