Critical analysis exposes ordinarily invisible contradictions within liberal democracies

Evidence

By ‘critical’ I mean the potential of working with and within frameworks that conceive prejudice, racism and discrimination as a social and cultural system, fi rmly lodged in (and infl uenced by) the historic and current democratic social, political, legal order. Analysis is ‘critical’ insofar as it addresses societal dilemmas, tensions and contradictions that are ‘ordinarily invisible’ (Opotow, 2011 ), yet infl uence how liberal democracies organize themselves and construct their own collective social mechanisms for including and excluding people. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 78

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the author’s distinctive sense of ‘critical analysis’ — distinct from critical discourse analysis — as exposing invisibilized democratic contradictions.
• XREF: connects to: Critical theory has an inner political dynamic demanding concrete positions — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2671

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• Critical analysis seeks contradictions between decency declarations and actual treatment (similarity 0.84)
• Critical theory has an inner political dynamic demanding concrete positions (similarity 0.83)
• Understanding prejudice requires cultural, not merely psychological, analysis (similarity 0.79)