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Day #12 of Jones’ & Okun’s “Characteristics of #WhiteSupremacyCulture”.
Today’s featured characteristic is #Objectivity.
A hallmark of #WhiteSupremacyCulture is that there is such a thing as being #objective.
Today’s featured characteristic is #Objectivity.
A hallmark of #WhiteSupremacyCulture is that there is such a thing as being #objective.
#Objectivity
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the belief that emotions are inherently destructive, irrational, and should not play a role in decision-making or group process
invalidating people who show emotion”/2
#whitesupremacyculture
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the belief that emotions are inherently destructive, irrational, and should not play a role in decision-making or group processinvalidating people who show emotion”/2#whitesupremacyculture
#Objectivity
“ requiring people to think in a linear fashion and ignoring or invalidating those who think in other ways
impatience with any thinking that does not appear logical to those with power”/3
#whitesupremacyculture
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requiring people to think in a linear fashion and ignoring or invalidating those who think in other waysimpatience with any thinking that does not appear logical to those with power”/3#whitesupremacyculture
Antidotes to #Objectivity
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realize that everybody has a world view and that everybody's world view affects the way they understand things; realize this means you too”/4
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realize that everybody has a world view and that everybody's world view affects the way they understand things; realize this means you too”/4#whitesupremacyculture
Antidotes to #Objectivity
“ push yourself to sit with discomfort when people are expressing themselves in ways which are not familiar to you;
assume that everybody has a valid point and your job is to understand what that point is”/END
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push yourself to sit with discomfort when people are expressing themselves in ways which are not familiar to you; assume that everybody has a valid point and your job is to understand what that point is”/END#whitesupremacyculture
This is also used at the basis of discrediting and dismissing people of color especially women of color’s perspectives. Think abt tropes of the “angry Black woman” and the “emotional Latina”. #ObjectivityDoesNotExist
