Great comment. This is easy stuff:
* If someone from a marginalized (or tbh, any other) group says, "Please call me XYZ", do it
* If you use the wrong term, briefly apologize and use the right one instead.
That's all you gotta do.
* If someone from a marginalized (or tbh, any other) group says, "Please call me XYZ", do it
* If you use the wrong term, briefly apologize and use the right one instead.
That's all you gotta do.
Why does the author use "African Americans" and then "whites"? I prefer "European American", thank you.
But... "doing the opposite" as some kind of "duty" because you believe marginalized groups want to control your thoughts is the antithesis of having "independent" thought.
Please tell me this place has just broken my ability to detect irony.
That view is so convenient that I have a hard time believing that it's right.
edited to remove a typo
Calling someone by the terms they prefer is a baseline for common courtesy, from which those better outcomes can follow. Nowhere is it claimed that this is "all marginalized groups need," rather that it's simply the least you can, and should, do.
>That view is so convenient that I have a hard time believing that it's right.
It isn't right, because you're purposely misrepresenting it an attempt to discredit it through a false dichotomy.
Also I don't understand what's "convenient" about it. Are we supposed to infer an ulterior motive on the part of people who want to be called by a certain pronoun?