Invoking individual creative freedom obscures the social hierarchies behind minority protest

Evidence

Sherene Razack writes that using hate as an analytic “discourages the thinking that is required to make sense of the high numbers of murdered Indigenous women, police shootings of Black people, and a range of historical atrocities such as the Holocaust, settler colonial massacres and violent dispossession.” Hate is framed as an individual problem that the state condemns and helps to resolve. It is also an emotion, psychologized as an individual pathology that can be combated like a disease, rather than sets of policies that are enacted for political interests. This approach regards Islamophobia as an individual problem of hate between people, not as a structural issue connected to state policies or media representations. — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 34 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The important thing for me is facilitating a community of creative interest. Creativity is inborn—a birthright that is often suppressed by social imperatives. I try in my classes to open the gates so that the creative spirit of the students can flourish. I do this through listening and encouraging listening, sharing and discussion. My students listen by doing field recording, then sharing their files to make pieces. The students also keep journals of their listening experiences. — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 420 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Base noise protests are driven by what the noise symbolizes; Media ideology becomes most visible when politically organized out-groups demand access; Free expression is meaningless without the social power to be heard — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 355 (+11 more)

Related

• Framing discrimination as individual hate obscures its structural and policy-based causes (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Framing discrimination as individual hate obscures its structural and policy-based causes #corroborates (0.85) — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 34
• Creativity is an inborn birthright that social imperatives suppress #contradicts (0.75) — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 420
• Covert framing of Muslim surveillance as anti-terrorism suppressed public protest #exemplifies (0.60)
• Civil-liberties-versus-security framing normalizes sacrificing minority rights. #corroborates (0.60)
• The demand that minorities speak for their whole community reinforces their marginality #corroborates (0.50)
• Ideologies act on people structurally through a process that escapes them #expands (0.40)