@georgeob1,
Quote:It appears you are saying that resistance to the prejudgments of others based on superficial observations, (i.e. black, Jewish, Catholic, etc. ) requires the "pushback" of equivalent counter prejudgments against the supposed perpetrators.
No. A simple point here:
where a group has been oppressed or denied equal rights by the dominant group/culture (eg blacks, chinese, women, gays, jews, etc) that oppressed group will have to wage campaigns critical of the existing system and forward policies/laws to gain the rights denied. This is what marks any civil rights movement, obviously.
The cultural isolation and marginalization of the individuals in such groups is not a consequence of anything they've done. It is a consequence of the dominant culture's oppression - a consequence
of that dominant culture's identification of blacks or women as a group which is generally inferior and undeserving of equal rights. "You aren't like us. We won't let you gain access to the rights and privileges that we - definitely not you - deserve to maintain for ourselves".
It was and is "identity politics" of the dominant culture that identified these groups/individuals as different, as lesser and as undeserving. Attempts to portray those groups/individuals as guilty of acting inappropriately when they strive to alter the system which differentiates and identifies them is to continue the oppression - "How dare they do what is our singular right"
Re things here... fine, other than as a 70 year old, the sound of bodies dropping all around is getting a bit noisy.
