One thought on “Abstract Liberalism in Color-Blind Racism”
[2023-02-10 22:05:08]
In his book "Racial Discrimination Without Racial Discrimination", Eduardo Bonilla-Silva talks about four different frameworks to prove color blind racial discrimination. The first of these abstract liberalisms is by far the most ambiguous, so avoiding it is most difficult for me. However, some concepts sound familiar. That is because it is reminiscent of the concept of liberal hippies with stereotypes, ie individualism, personal freedom, equal opportunities. Many happy buzzwords, many do not use free hippies
Since the focus of this book is primarily to try to prove that people trying to prove their innocence are actually misusing racial loopholes, this special framework Many things appeared when discussing positive actions. The focus of the discussion is definitely not racist, I think that everyone should have an equal opportunity (focusing on individual efforts), so anyone should receive special handling is not. Abstract liberalism will emerge when saying "it should be personal" or "everyone should have an equal opportunity". Assuming that everyone can judge alone without any problems, they sound absolutely fair, equally and beautifully until you think they are eliminating years of history and oppression
Like all the frames in the book, this is what ethnically conscious people have always watched. Especially in aggressive actions and similar programs, it can not be counted that Caucasian actions are a little hesitant to support it. They think it should be inclusive, and no one should be "special handling". A kind, sincere intention, but it is an incredible problem because it ignores the whole-body problem bothering people of color.
Abstract liberalism can succeed only in fake lands, not only in racial discrimination but also in lack of discrimination
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva believes color blind discrimination arises from "abstract liberalism, cultural biochemistry, naturalization of racial issues, and minimization of racial discrimination". The practice of color vision abnormality is "subtle, institutional, and clearly non-racial". Because races are clearly ignored in decision making. For example, if a race is ignored by a group of white people, whites become a normative criterion, people with color are affected and racial discrimination experienced by these people is minimized , Will be eliminated. At the individual level, people with "color blindness" reject racist ideology, but refuse systematic policies aimed at coping with institutional racial discrimination.
Bonilla-Silva (2) said color-blind socialism is "an ideology that gained unity and control in the late 1960s and interpreted contemporary racial inequality as a result of non-racial mechanics" . In order to analyze the color blind racial discrimination, Bonilla-Silva responded "Involving interview data mainly" (11) to the survey of university students' social attitudes in 1997 and the Detroit Area Study (DAS) in 1998 (12) )passed it. Bonilla-Silva decomposes the analysis of color blind discrimination into four central themes, expressing how Caucasi interpret the world without racial issues.
According to an interview analysis of university students and respondents of DAS, color blind racist discrimination has four central frameworks, most white respondents use these frameworks. The four frameworks are abstract liberalism, naturalization, cultural racial discrimination and racial discrimination. Among the four frameworks, abstract liberalism is the most important because it forms the basis of a new racial ideology. This is also the most difficult to understand (what is competition or positive action against the bus, does it obviously interfere with our American individualism?) Therefore, in this chapter, Explain the space and how it works with color blinds.