HagridOfTheDeep
Junior Chimp
Posts: 8,738
Political Matrix E: -6.19, S: -4.35
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« on: February 18, 2019, 01:14:05 AM » |
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I suspect they are "pluralistic" in a shallow sense that lets them accept diversity so long as it does not require them to question their own privilege or the ways they have benefited from the historic and ongoing systematic marginalization of others.
So, for example, they are socially liberal up to the point where someone challenges them on their uncritical use of "cotton-pickin'" as an adjective. They are accepting until they talk about the "poor white boys" who have "less of a chance" at getting accepted into police training programs because of the push to have the police force be more representative of the communities they serve. They value diversity until someone challenges their understanding of gender by asking them to "please refer to me with another pronoun." They are socially liberal until a friend pipes up and says that immigrants should have to speak English.
In other words, they are lazy. They're socially liberal when it requires no work but instinctively inclined towards reproducing the sameness that they're most used to in their relatively homogenous and comfortable social circles. They may not be racists, but they're nowhere near ready or willing to do the difficult work of antiracism, either.
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