Bobo:
I don’t buy the argument that “fill in the blank-ism is the combination of prejudice with institutional power” argument (which I’m sure makes me a pariah around these parts). It may be weak and toothless “ism” without said power, but it’s still not right and is unjust. A blanket judging a person by race, color, sex, gender, religion etc… is still a pretty a-hole thing to do even without the power to force anything based on that judgement. It may not fit an academic definition of a particular “ism”, but I believe that it fits a commonly socially agreed upon definition.
I’m not sure I do either. Sexism is sexism, racism is racism, oppression is oppression. Trying to redefine the -isms as requiring oppression to exist just screams “yeah I’m a racist, but it’s okay if I’m a racist.”
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doctorow
February 18, 2014, 9:02pm
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