Sublime

choices the society has made about how to treat them. This, in Walker’s view, made it important to go beyond Carnegie’s idea of temporary inequality as the price of progress. Wealthy individuals needed to ask themselves, “Is the playing field on which I accumulated my wealth level and fair? Does the system privilege people like me in ways that comp

Principled Opposition: Example 3 We affirm that discrimination and bigotry against sexual minorities remains a problem in society and requires addressing. We deny that this problem can be solved by queer Theory, which attempts to render all categories relevant to sex, gender, and sexuality meaningless. We contend that homophobia and transphobia are

For example, a person with deafness was previously considered to be a person who cannot hear, and who is disabled to some extent by her impairment. After the shift, she was seen as a Deaf person, someone who cannot hear and whom society has “disabled” by failing to be equally accommodating to those without hearing as it is to those with hearing (by

Here we see how a white masculine imagination flattens social reality. Equal Opportunity Offense is the prime directive, and durable hierarchies are figments of others’ imagination.

These studies suggest that being either disadvantaged or advantaged can increase racial bias.

But so much of what we think and feel about people of other races is dictated by our system, and not our hearts. Who we see as successful, who has access to that success, who we see as scary, what traits we value in society, who we see as “smart” and “beautiful”—these perceptions are determined by our proximity to the cultural values of the majorit