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Vinay is asking the question I have asked for a very long time. But I asked yesterday in relation to ableism how we remove the destructive and retain the productive? For me, the answer comes back to Cultural Influence. Language, food, dress, music, beliefs - culture is colorful!
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Ah. My father never talked about Korea either. He also forbade us to even make the pistol sign or have toy guns. My husband was a Navy Corpsman in Vietnam. He wrote his story, told me some but usually did not speak of it and was enraged at the government. He died 2 weeks into DJT
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I would fact check that majority white statistic as Mexicans, Middle Easterners, Jews and many "ethnicities" are classified as white but are often not white either by genetics, identity or both. Assimilation is well-known to Judaic tribes alrighty, as we "pass" (not always true)
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Speaking of weaponization and white males, I think people identifying as white and working class on down are having a really hard time with identity and especially *place* as many are feeling less-than the people made less-than by them and/or ancestors. The US majority is white..
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My parents divided there, not as yours in politics. My father was "low class" despite a Stuyvesant education - math, science. He was very dark skinned but I don't think that was of issue to her. He served in Korea as infantry, she disliked that he wan't a higher rank FFS! Family!
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Thank you, I'm very excited to have some structured learning again. I go back to school when I get stuck, and I've been stuck! :)
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Oh wow, thanks Jonathan. It seemed so logical. I understand what was actually going on now. No Military Nation State will sit right with me. I'm Persian Jew no less. Talk about complex identities and rare breeds! Tiny little group of thousands in 7.8 billion? that defines "other"
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My mother was brilliant when it came to everything but class despite her mother coming here via a cattle boat during Polish pogroms (pre Holocaust). She was a shining light of racial, sexual, worker, individual and women's justice. But class and education? Total snob.
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How's that play out within your family? Politically aligned mostly in mine, with the exception of me at 4 asking my parents since Israel was built to save Jews from harm why were we doing harm in1967? Anti-Zionist by 4 years old? Unpopular and disliked to this day for that logic!
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I like that. I "acknowledge" self. That's a strong statement. With mittens for the social democrat ;-) (I gotta be meme lol)
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To me, that's delightful. Because YOU choose the reason and identity. And the order in which each aspect appears. Not others, who will always assume, and usually wrongly assume.
I LOVE that Ahmad. There's logic in this. 2 can conflict or cooperate. But 3 disrupts both. Fascinating to me, thank you so much for the link!
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That's very true in my experience as well, and the conflict that solves a problem for one causes another for someone else. That seems more a tech problem than social/linguistic. We know so little about our differences and abilities. And then comorbidities. Multiple needs for one.
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I think there are many factors there. Firstly, USA identifiers (like most places) are inconsistent. Mexican is not a race, but ethnicity until a slight is made, when we say it's "racist". Lacks parity. Titles, esp Dr. hard won by others generationally makes sense - Dr. Jill Biden
Makes so much sense! Also, reminds me of a funny story regarding my own assumptions. I spent 8 weeks in my 20s at Rutgers UMDNJ undergoing every medical test imaginable. My doctor was Carol Levy. I expected a Jewish Woman, in walks a black man! He was one of my faves ever. Funny!
How do you self-identify according to common isms such as Race, Gender, Ethnicity, Class etc? Or do you prefer not to? Or something else (and please share!) #Identity
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We are emerging a culture of self-identification, which is intriguing. This is clear in the Pronoun phenomenon around gender. There are now at least 10 or more variants. This seems to have merit. It's when others make the identity choice by bias, not the individual by experience
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When I write and speak, unless I'm quoting someone specifically or referring to documented facts I can provide, I often challenge ideas and debate people. It's Socratic and open source. What you believe is your right until it's imposed on others who do not welcome the imposition.
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This point makes my comments yesterday on how to neutralize ableism or any 'ism' while retaining the identity and cultures of value. Multicuturalists struggle with this all the time. It is differences in us that potentially expands us, not contracts.
The vast majority of Disabled people really prefer the word disabled. So if you’re looking for a consensus on terms you won’t get it trying to remove disabled as the main option.