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It's one thing for an institution to position itself against emphasizing individualism. It's a couple steps further to define emphasizing individualism as a for
by emiliobumachar 13y ago
It's one thing for an institution to position itself against emphasizing individualism. It's a couple steps further to define emphasizing individualism as a form of racism.
Is there somethig that I as a non-american don't get that makes this newspeak palatable? Have american racists historically been more individualistic or something?
EDIT: this comment from elnate nails it:
"They're conflating racism with enthnocentrism, the idea that one culture (usually yours) is better than others."
- jlgreco 13y ago> Have american racists historically been more individualistic or something? Not to my knowledge. As far as I can tell they are doing nothing more than using existing strong negative connotations of racism to slander an unrelated ideology. It doesn't make logical sense, but it doesn't have to; they are counting on the strong emotional response it evokes to be sufficiently persuasive.
- philwelch 13y agoIf anything, individualism and racism are incompatible since individualism considers people as individuals and not as members of groups such as races or nationalities.
- arrrg 13y agoThat’s not conflating something with something, that’s having a different definition than you have.
- hga 13y ago"s there somethig that I as a non-american don't get that makes this newspeak palatable?" Not a chance; I was born and raised in the US in the consolidation period of the Civil Rights struggle (came of political age in the '70s) and it's just as unpalatable to me.