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I don't agree with your views, but I do agree with this take. I often hear people use the phrase: "especially effects under represented minorities", which robs
by syspec 4y ago
I don't agree with your views, but I do agree with this take.
I often hear people use the phrase: "especially effects under represented minorities", which robs those people of agency, portrays them ALL as being X (which is prejudice by definition).
Worst of all the phrase is trotted out like a weapon to accomplish some goal.
It's a shame because usually the people think they're helping
- rayiner 4y agoI don't doubt these folks are well intentioned. I think it's just human nature to have trouble seeing past the end of your own nose. The white people taking about "under represented minorities" probably isn't organically immersed in minority communities, but experience them mainly as subjects of their own political, academic, or charitable efforts. That naturally leads them to essentialize those minorities and lump them together. Moreover, their limited exposure to minorities is often derivative of their interactions with other white people. E.g. someone who grows up in Wisconsin and has little exposure to Muslim immigrants other than as the subject of antagonism by Trump supporters, probably can't help but view those minorities except through the lens of their own opposition to other white people.