Someone needs to take a stand, so not all work places end up being so woke they are racist.
Bring back common sense.
Bring back common sense.
Aim for uncommon sense instead.
Incidentally, if anyone dares to call me that (I'm Japanese), I sincerely will not consider him a man of good character.
Dr. King preferred "citizens of color." What sets "people of color" apart? Both acknowledge the subject's humanity.
Political scientist Angelo Falcón argues that the use of broad terms like "person of color" is offensive because it aggregates diverse communities and projects "a false unity" that "obscure[s] the needs of Latinos and Asians"
more or less creating a group that simply ‘is not white’ is disparinging for all of the folks in that group that feel more unique than simply ‘not white’
It is racist to generalize peoples' heritages, it is racist to exclude whites, and above all it is racist to not simply consider your fellow man as just a fellow man just like yourself.
Racism is considering someone's race for something where race is not relevant, the intent behind the act is irrelevant.
>> "Racism is considering someone's race for something where race is not relevant, the intent behind the act is irrelevant."
The people who popularized the term to describe themselves certainly didn't think it was irrelevant.
Apparently that’s allowed now, at least by the people seem to think everybody else are the racists: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna129796
I criticize the redefinition as seemingly wholly existing to narrow the number of cases in which racial discrimination can be considered racism and I wonder what ethical justification could possibly exist for PRESCRIBING this definition when people use the word “racist” in the common sense of the word. It seems to be a definition which exists wholly because some think it would be swell if a black woman calling an Asian man a slur wasn’t called a racist. Yet the people who argue for this I find don’t actually support this behaviour, they would discourage it, they just want marginalized groups to just never be called racist, because that’s too harsh or something.
Also what constitutes systemic oppression anyways? Take a majority subordinate under a minority boss. Can the minority say a slur without it being racist? Can the majority? What a stupid debate to have when this shouldn’t happen EITHER way, because this is RACIST. The original definition is more fair and simple and straightforwards and popular and less counterproductive than the redefinitions.
Woke, in this case, is focusing on Nth order effects.. do prod your coworker about their race because abstract reasons justified by theories about social abstractions... Thinking about group effects that might kick in at the societal level instead of the effect you're having immediately on the individual sitting right in front of you.
The former, first order common sense thinking, is what normal people intuitively do. Focusing on the individual when dealing with an individual is the common sense approach. The second, focusing about abstract secondary group effects when dealing with an individual, is something people get trained into doing by sociology class in university, or being lectured on the internet, or being indoctrinated into a racist ideology. A traditional racist or a modern woke person doesn't see individuals, they see representatives of abstract groups that must be treated in some way calculated to have Nth order group effects.