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Privilege of coming out and settler colonialism - Coggle Diagram
Privilege of coming out and settler colonialism
Calls for Racial Justice
Relationship between power and empathy
Empathy is more of a skill than a trait
Habits and practices can increase empathetic capacity.
Power and privilege makes us lose empathy
Higher status people are less empathetic than lower status people.
Powerful individuals decrease their own empathy in order to avoid the discomfort of realizing they benefit from injustice
Underprivileged people realize they need others to succeed while privileged people think they can do it alone and ignore the struggles of others
High income white Americans overestimate racial equality more than other groups
Reversing power structures where lower status people are being heard by higher status people instead of vice versa
Settler colonialism
Based upon "genocidal appropriation" - the idea that indigenous people will disappear making non-indigenous people the natural owners of indigenous land.
Erasure of indigenous students
Indigenous students are rendered invisible
University is where Indigenous peoples are studied but can't come to study
POC are complicit in erasing indigenous culture and identity
Racism is often framed from the perspective of POC communities and not indigenous communities
POC benefit from the oppression of indigenous communities, thus contributing to settler colonialism
Territory acknowledgements
Territorial acknowledgements are an external form of the internal decolonization work
Some of these acknowledgements by non-indigenous people are superficial, merely an item to be checked off
Territorial acknowledgements need to be an ongoing process of accountability and unsettlement
Tokenization of indigenous students
Non-indigenous professors often ask indigenous students to speak on behalf of all indigenous people. It is problematic because it homogenizes indigenous people by pushing this idea that they are all identical
Homogenizing indigenous people eliminates cultural identity
Settlers relieve themselves of the responsibility of self education by having indigenous people educate them about indigenous experiences
The Privilege of coming out
Society is influenced by compulsory heterosexuality where we assume that everyone ought to be heterosexual
People enforce their heterosexual biases through institutionalized privilege and subordination
Compulsory heterosexism and homophobia exist within secular and religious institutions
Lesbian's decisions to come out are shaped by the social conditions around them
White lesbians are ignored by literature about lesbian people and mothers