Lori Gruen’s (2015) article portrays how this misconception of privileging injustices can alienate the overall goal of social change. Gruen explains the deaths of Samuel Dubose, Cecil the lion, and Sandra Bland. Dubose was fatally murdered by a White male officer due to improper vehicle identification, Cecil the lion was shot and killed while being deceived, and Sandra Bland committed suicide in her cell. Gruen exhibits these deaths in order to correlate which crowd cared for which killing. It showed that White people cared more about the lions, Black men were favored over Black women etc. In witnessing this, the idea of privileging one injustice over another begins to occur. Gruen (2015) herself thinks this idea is suspect and says it weakens
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Simon de Beauvoir (1949), a feminist, proclaimed that women have been subjected as the “other” for years due to this outlook on physiological, psychological, and economic forces. Khan (2003), noted, that there were social disadvantages for the subordinate groups which made aptitude testing unfair. The minorities did not experience the adequate amount of education as the whites, therefore setting themselves up for failure. And Hurn (2012) exclaimed that the objectification of humans or non-humans in the past and contemporary world justifies their treatment in the eyes and minds of the “abusers.” This biased outlook was how the overtaking of the indigenous people by the Europeans were justified. Nonetheless, these points construe how early this view of “othering” has been present and the repercussions that could follow. Simon de Beauvoir, Khan, and Hurn have been able to articulate their ideas in presenting not only how “othering” is still relevant today, but the effects it has had over the people subjected by it. Khan (2003) gave very interesting insight to how people distinguished themselves based off IQ with Asians …show more content…
RAINN (2009) conducted research and has shown through collected data that 17.7 million American women have been victims of rape. All of this evidence expresses, to an extent, how races or genders react when they are stereotyped as the “other.” Evidently, Gruen’s thesis is a well-constructed point. All of the killings and the imminent surge of racial cruelty towards blacks with wrongful deaths such as Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Walter Scott, etcetera, show a problem with how society is thinking. The assembly for black lives matter is one of the many ways social change is beginning to commence. These group of people have been able to identify the injustice and commonality between these gruesome killings and have linked together to defeat this oppression. Gruen’s statement speaks about weakening the “higher power” and instead of fighting against one another, join together and defeat the source of this discriminatory direction. Overall, “othering” has many consequences. Why is it that the blacks are being subjected to incarceration rather than earning a degree? Is it fair that 9 out of 10 women are raped due to their inferior physiological
Simon de Beauvoir (1949), a feminist, proclaimed that women have been subjected as the “other” for years due to this outlook on physiological, psychological, and economic forces. Khan (2003), noted, that there were social disadvantages for the subordinate groups which made aptitude testing unfair. The minorities did not experience the adequate amount of education as the whites, therefore setting themselves up for failure. And Hurn (2012) exclaimed that the objectification of humans or non-humans in the past and contemporary world justifies their treatment in the eyes and minds of the “abusers.” This biased outlook was how the overtaking of the indigenous people by the Europeans were justified. Nonetheless, these points construe how early this view of “othering” has been present and the repercussions that could follow. Simon de Beauvoir, Khan, and Hurn have been able to articulate their ideas in presenting not only how “othering” is still relevant today, but the effects it has had over the people subjected by it. Khan (2003) gave very interesting insight to how people distinguished themselves based off IQ with Asians …show more content…
RAINN (2009) conducted research and has shown through collected data that 17.7 million American women have been victims of rape. All of this evidence expresses, to an extent, how races or genders react when they are stereotyped as the “other.” Evidently, Gruen’s thesis is a well-constructed point. All of the killings and the imminent surge of racial cruelty towards blacks with wrongful deaths such as Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Walter Scott, etcetera, show a problem with how society is thinking. The assembly for black lives matter is one of the many ways social change is beginning to commence. These group of people have been able to identify the injustice and commonality between these gruesome killings and have linked together to defeat this oppression. Gruen’s statement speaks about weakening the “higher power” and instead of fighting against one another, join together and defeat the source of this discriminatory direction. Overall, “othering” has many consequences. Why is it that the blacks are being subjected to incarceration rather than earning a degree? Is it fair that 9 out of 10 women are raped due to their inferior physiological