Empörung über individuelle Bigotterie kann die Unterstützung für systemische Rassengerechtigkeit untergraben | Empörung über einen bestimmten Fanatiker zu äußern, kann als psychologische Erleichterung dienen, die mit Rassenprivilegien verbundene Schuldgefühle lindert und dadurch den Drang zu weiteren Wiedergutmachungsmaßnahmen verringert.
Outrage at individual bigotry may undermine support for systemic racial justice
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I know it works like that the other way around. As in, I’ve seen people who like Alabama 1050s racist when I was growing up. So to me THAT is racism.
Back when I was a hothead, I felt like as long as I didn’t say those things out loud, I wasn’t BEING racist. So if someone pointed out racist behavior or prejudice, I’d react as if they were just being petty. In my mind I’d be thinking, well at least I didn’t…
We’re starting to see more mainstream acceptance of people who are openly bigoted ie: Trump, JKR, etc
Very interesting. Makes sense to me.
It’s a pressure valve to relieve communal anxieties about systemic issues.
This is the power of the “bad apple” argument when it comes to police violence. Rather than address the systemic issues, we can focus on one of the “bad ones” and then call it a day cause surely if we just get the thousands of individual bad actors out the system will work.