I was watching last-night’s Nightly Show and I was especially shocked and disheartened to hear that Christina Greer (an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Fordham University) would choose wage equality for black people over that for ALL women if given the choice. It’s like hearing someone say: “discrimination is okay, as long as it’s not toward people in my group.” This is the same sort of faulty logic that Reggie Love employed two nights before when he said that “Islamophobia is welcome” since it might take the focus of people’s prejudice off of Blacks.
Prejudice is not a zero-sum game. Unfortunately, there’s plenty to go around. A person is capable of being prejudiced against multiple groups at the same time (and often are) because it is the result of faulty logic. I wish prejudice or discrimination was a “disease” that afflicts only certain groups, because that would make it easy to diagnose and deal with. Unfortunately, the fact is, we’re all vulnerable to it because, as human beings, we all make assumptions and racism, bigotry or prejudice is just assumptions taken to their hyperbolic extremes and discrimination the actions resulting from them.
So, there shouldn’t be any special dispensations for people who exhibit prejudice simply because they belong to a non-White group. If we don’t want to experience prejudice, then we need to get rid of it PERIOD, instead of cherry-picking which flavor of it is acceptable because “it’s to my advantage.”
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Which Flavor of Prejudice Would You Like?
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Day 1,004 & 1,007
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Thursday, July 12, 2012
- Continued to edit and publish UHCs from Dillon (Science Research Writer-Editor Intern) and Naren (Science Research Writer Volunteer)
- Had UHC meeting with Dillon and Naren
- Emailed Dillon and Naren BBC Radio program More or Less’s episode on body language
- Exchanged emails with Dillon about Psychology UHC entries
Sunday, July 15, 2012
- Wrote and published “Week in Review: July 2-8, 2012”
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