Why Sexism and Racism Never Diminish-Even When Everyone Becomes Less Sexist and Racist

DolphinsAreOk · 2018-07-02T12:19:55+00:00

When strong sexism declines, for example, the Overton window shrinks on one end and expands on the other so that what was once not considered sexism at all (e.g. “men and women have different preferences which might explain job choice“) now becomes violently sexist.

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antprince · 2018-07-03T04:13:44+00:00

But why shouldn’t our standards change over time? Most of the people in the 1850s who thought slavery was an abomination would have rejected the idea of inter-racial marriage. Wife beating wasn’t considered a violent crime in just the very recent past. What racism and sexism mean has changed over time. Are these examples of concept creep or progress? I’d argue progress but the blue dot experiment of Levari et al. suggests that if even objective concepts morph under prevalence inducement then subjective concepts surely will. The issue then is not to prevent progress but to recognize it and not be fooled into thinking that progress hasn’t been made just because our identifications have changed.

Clearly one problem is that people don't know history and think they see progress because they are under the illusion that earlier everything was much worse than what it really was. This is particularly true when ignorant people believe feminist propaganda. Hell, many wife beaters were publicly flogged until pretty recent past.

thrway_1000 · 2018-07-02T19:41:00+00:00

When the goal keeps shifting nothing ever goes away. Plus, when there's an incentive to find these things for advantage of course the goal will keep shifting.

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Ninagram · 2018-07-02T21:20:07+00:00

Thanks this was a very interesting article.

OnTheSlope · 2018-07-05T04:33:12+00:00

when threatening faces became rare, neutral faces began to appear threatening

I think a lot of societal problems that come up in this sub can be explained by this.

Why Sexism and Racism Never Diminish-Even When Everyone Becomes Less Sexist and Racist

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Title	Why Sexism and Racism Never Diminish-Even When Everyone Becomes Less Sexist and Racist
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Date	July 2, 2018 12:19 PM UTC (8 years ago)
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