SOC 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Fallacy, Standard-Definition Television, Christianity Today
12 May 2018
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• Cont’d 5 Fallacies About Racism:
4. Ahistorical Fallacy:
▪ Renders history impotent.
❖ Legacies of slavery and colonialism
❖ Eradication of millions of Native Americans
❖ Forced segregation
❖ Clandestine sterilizations
❖ Harmful science experiments
❖ Mass disenfranchisement
❖ Race-based exploitation
❖ Racist propaganda distributed by the state caricaturing Asians, blacks,
& Hispanics
❖ Racially motivated abuses of all kinds.
◆ Sexual
◆ Murderous
◆ Dehumanizing
▪ Today’s society is directed, constructed, & molded by the past.
▪ Thinks of Civil Rights Movement & attacks of 9/11 as important events
of the past.
▪ Thinks of slavery or colonization as a distant thing of the past.
❖ Many events in America’s distant past— especially enslavement &
murder of millions of Africans — are most consequential in shaping
present-day society.
◆ Any historian would remind us that since America is just over 200
years old, all American history is recent history.
5. Fixed Fallacy:
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Document Summary
Cont"d 5 fallacies about racism, ahistorical fallacy, renders history impotent. Racist propaganda distributed by the state caricaturing asians, blacks, Many events in america"s (cid:498)distant past(cid:499) especially enslavement & murder of millions of africans are most consequential in shaping years old, all american history is (cid:498)recent history. (cid:499) present-day society. Any historian would remind us that since america is just over 200: fixed fallacy, their standard definition of racism is the most heinous forms of racism, assume racism is fixed, immutable, & constant across time & space. Ask this question: (cid:498)has racism increased or decreased in the past decades? (cid:499) It"s important to trace career of american racism. Ex: analyzing how racial attitudes/measures of racial inclusion & They confidently conclude that things have gotten better. exclusion have changed over time. Race relations today are informed by those of the past, but we can"t hold to. We cannot conclude that there"s (cid:498)little or no racism(cid:499) today b/c it doesn"t early church.
