The ideas are damaging because it's racist as hell to suggest that virtues like planning for the future, caring about intent when considering punishment, or getting married before having kids are inherently white.
There is separate problem in the appeal to authority response that we should respect the opinion of a particular scholar, and not discuss it further. Scholars can be wrong, and they can also be misunderstood.
They use the excuse that it's meant to facilitate discussion, but I'm not sure how that works as the text was informational, rather than a conversation-starter. It's certainly not done in a way that helps people of ordinary intellects/ backgrounds have a discussion about sensitive topics.
It's also not about stereotypes, as they say that these are examples of whiteness or white dominant culture, internalized by Americans, including people of color
My concern is what the chart says about people of color, not what it says about white people.
There could be a reasonable argument that positive attributes are wrongly associated with white people. The chart at the Smithsonian didn't seem to be making it. Their argument is that these are attitudes that have been normalized and internalized, rather than these are virtues wrongly associated with white people. They're combining things that are value neutral (children having their own rooms) and sometimes bad (an understanding that a person's value is based on their salary, intolerance of polytheists) with good things they're associating with whiteness.
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That's just it -- I mean, I'm all on board for getting vaccinated, just got my first shot on Friday, despite that I don't have any health issues or reason to think I should be at huge risk, if I did get Covid. I'd still just feel better about everyone's risk in general, if there were not so many people being all anti-vax about it.
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Stereotyping is bad no matter which way you do it. Labeling one group of people as having uniform behaviors, values, societal norms, or attributes either denigrates everyone in that group if the labels are negative, or denies others who are not a part of that group from being acknowledged as having the same attributes if those are positive.
If you are raised in a limited, semi-isolated, close-knit community, then you are more likely (though not always) to share attributes with your neighbors.
In the U.S. those bonds have been broken, reformed, and broken again so many times it's impossible to truly give groups any type of attribute anymore. You find these most often in communities that a re comprised mostly of recent immigrants from the same country. But over generations, things change.
What I'm saying is that you could list a hundred different stereotypical attributes, both positive and negative, and ask a random group of people to chose those that best describe themselves and those that best describe someone else they know. I am certain that these choices will not easily match into any preconceived pattern for any specific ethnic, racial, religious, or other groups. Not unless the person being surveyed is being dishonest with themselves and is intentionally only choosing those they believe fit the stereotype of the group that they most identify with.
if I was a Univesity Professor or someone with the resources to conduct a study like this I'd love to do so. I'm certain that my hypotheses would be proven to be correct.
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If you're right about this, it should say somewhere in the infographic that this is meant to be a criticism of people who view respect for the scientific method as uniquely white. This story got some media coverage last year. In at least one of those write-ups, there should be an interview with someone from the Smithsonian to explain that it's meant to be a criticism of people who feel a particular way, rather than an endorsement of a viewpoint.
The arguments on how to define racism are rather counterproductive. It seems to come from an effort to control discussion, combined with equivocation, and creates a lot of situations where people talk past one another when discussing sensitive questions. In these kind of discussions, clarity is important, and that's hard when people have very different definitions of something like racism. The same term can be used for progressive white people talking about their own shortcomings, as well as the faults of people who should be shunned by polite society.
There seems to be an impression that labeling something gives it meaning, and I personally disagree with that. Whether a black man being bigoted against Asian-Americans is called racism or not doesn't suddenly make it right.
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