Not sure why this was downvoted. The word ‘racism’ was coined in pre-WWII Europe, the word ‘sexism’ was coined in the US during the 1960s. The movements/ moral systems against such things have been widespread, and I’m not sure it makes sense to say they started anywhere besides “Western civilization”. Moral systems don’t have founding moments anyway, they evolve out of other moral systems and historical conditions. I would say that the term racism probably plays a bigger role in American discourse than elsewhere, if only because the US is more racially diverse than most of the rest of the world.
The extent to which the usage of these terms is indicative of a particular moral system is just a question of high def versus low def. If you look closely you see differences, if you don’t, it all looks the same. If your views are in the general vicinity of where cousin-it was aiming you probably see issues involving racism and sexism. If you are far from cousin-it’s target you may well not see the differences between moral systems that use the terms racism and sexism. Though don’t “reverse racism” and “reverse sexism” count as uses of these terms? The moral system that uses those terms pretty obviously distinct from the moral system that I think cousin_it is referring to.
Not sure why this was downvoted. The word ‘racism’ was coined in pre-WWII Europe, the word ‘sexism’ was coined in the US during the 1960s. The movements/ moral systems against such things have been widespread, and I’m not sure it makes sense to say they started anywhere besides “Western civilization”. Moral systems don’t have founding moments anyway, they evolve out of other moral systems and historical conditions. I would say that the term racism probably plays a bigger role in American discourse than elsewhere, if only because the US is more racially diverse than most of the rest of the world.
The extent to which the usage of these terms is indicative of a particular moral system is just a question of high def versus low def. If you look closely you see differences, if you don’t, it all looks the same. If your views are in the general vicinity of where cousin-it was aiming you probably see issues involving racism and sexism. If you are far from cousin-it’s target you may well not see the differences between moral systems that use the terms racism and sexism. Though don’t “reverse racism” and “reverse sexism” count as uses of these terms? The moral system that uses those terms pretty obviously distinct from the moral system that I think cousin_it is referring to.
Not by me. But the readability is abysmal enough that I at least had second thoughts before voting it up to 0..