Good & not-so-good stuff online
I've been dealing with a sore throat and taking it easy with some online reading.
eracerhead sent this to an antiracism list we're both on and I think it's great! I've shared it with other antiracism lists and also interfaith ones. I've quoted from it differently depending on the context. I've also sent the author, Austin Cline, a request to copy it onto the interfaith section of one of my web sites (which incidently I found out is coming up #1 on Google for the search term "interfaith churches" which gives it hits on average of one per DAY). Here's the quote I used on the antiracism forum in LJ.:
"A nonconscious ideology is analogous to the water fish swim in: fish don’t think of the water as wet because this environment is all they know - it structures their experience of life itself. Water simply is. Members of privileged groups don’t have to think about their environment because, for them, that environment simply is. They don’t have to be concerned about others’ opinions because it’s safe to assume that most think like them.
Those who don’t benefit from such an environment do have to think about it all the time because they are so susceptible to being harmed by it. For members of less privileged groups, what others think matters a great deal because their opinions and actions control access to the larger benefits of society.
Fish don’t have to think about the water; mammals must remain conscious of it at all times lest they drown.
...The defense of privilege is a defense of dominance and discrimination, but for those who benefit it’s a defense of their traditional way of life. They need to become conscious of their privileges and realize that in a free society, such privileges are inappropriate." This article mentions racism as one nonconscious ideology, but it actually focusses on a different oppression.
No comments so far.
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I also found some beatiful African music used to fight AIDS at the Minnesota Public Radio site. It was referenced in an article in UUWorld.
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I also watched a 1 hr. 20 min. movie, Loose Change on the web. I don't think I've ever watched one that long on the web before. It was interesting, but it's not factual. To put that many resources into a theory and cause, they should have made sure it was more accurate. Unless they're purposely trying to misinform people for propaganda reasons. If you're easily taken in by such things, don't watch it.
eracerhead sent this to an antiracism list we're both on and I think it's great! I've shared it with other antiracism lists and also interfaith ones. I've quoted from it differently depending on the context. I've also sent the author, Austin Cline, a request to copy it onto the interfaith section of one of my web sites (which incidently I found out is coming up #1 on Google for the search term "interfaith churches" which gives it hits on average of one per DAY). Here's the quote I used on the antiracism forum in LJ.:
"A nonconscious ideology is analogous to the water fish swim in: fish don’t think of the water as wet because this environment is all they know - it structures their experience of life itself. Water simply is. Members of privileged groups don’t have to think about their environment because, for them, that environment simply is. They don’t have to be concerned about others’ opinions because it’s safe to assume that most think like them.
Those who don’t benefit from such an environment do have to think about it all the time because they are so susceptible to being harmed by it. For members of less privileged groups, what others think matters a great deal because their opinions and actions control access to the larger benefits of society.
Fish don’t have to think about the water; mammals must remain conscious of it at all times lest they drown.
...The defense of privilege is a defense of dominance and discrimination, but for those who benefit it’s a defense of their traditional way of life. They need to become conscious of their privileges and realize that in a free society, such privileges are inappropriate." This article mentions racism as one nonconscious ideology, but it actually focusses on a different oppression.
No comments so far.
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I also found some beatiful African music used to fight AIDS at the Minnesota Public Radio site. It was referenced in an article in UUWorld.
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I also watched a 1 hr. 20 min. movie, Loose Change on the web. I don't think I've ever watched one that long on the web before. It was interesting, but it's not factual. To put that many resources into a theory and cause, they should have made sure it was more accurate. Unless they're purposely trying to misinform people for propaganda reasons. If you're easily taken in by such things, don't watch it.