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In reply to the discussion: No, racism and sexism don't "go both ways" [View all]Igel
(35,443 posts)Deal.
The rest is jargon. Racism is treatment and it's also views. One can have racist views and equal treatment, or (under the law) non-racist views and disparate therefore racist treatment. We like that because it serves ideological and political ends.
In academia, it was convenient to find nice ways of speaking in ways that marginalized those that held power and made it all about those already marginalized. It was the politicization of academia, and it's continued. (With the claims that all academia is political; I've heard Ohm's Law called a political construct. Some academics are just idjits of the first water, yet we treat their words as foolishness when they say things like that but as purest wisdom when they say other things we want to believe. A foolish thing should be called a foolish thing; a fool should be called a fool. If you can't, then we suspend critical thinking entirely and wallow in doctrine and dogma or wants and desires.)