Multicultural exoticism can function as a substitute for confronting racism.
Evidence
The one perspective encourages fear, the other indifference. What neither begins to address is the question of engagement. Engagement requires us neither to shun certain people as the Other, with values and practices inevitably inimical to ours, nor to be indifferent to such values and practices in the name of ‘respect’, but rather to recognize that respect requires us to challenge the values and beliefs of others. It requires us to have a robust, open public debate about the values to which we aspire, accepting that such a debate will be difficult, and often confrontational, but also that such difficult, confrontational debate is a necessity in any society that seeks to be open and liberal. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 689 (
#complicates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Multiculturalism and institutional racism can coexist simultaneously; Both nativism and multiculturalism fail by avoiding genuine engagement with difference — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 689
Related
- Both nativism and multiculturalism fail by avoiding genuine engagement with difference (similarity 0.90)
- Equality plus recognition of difference must avoid both liberal atomism and absolutist community (similarity 0.84)
- Multicultural drift is a diagnostic, not a political program (similarity 0.82)
- Mainstream multiculturalism fails to address racial inequality and division (similarity 0.79)
- Multiculturalism reduces difference to exotic spectacle while evading racism (similarity 0.79)
- Antiracism must sit within limits set by multicultural difference. (similarity 0.79)
- Multiculturalism was imposed from above and atomized minorities into competing ethnic camps (similarity 0.79)
- Islamophobia is best understood and countered as a form of anti-Muslim racism. (similarity 0.78)
- Islamophobia study must adopt an explicitly justified normative framework such as multiculturalism (similarity 0.78)
- Multiculturalism and institutional racism can coexist simultaneously (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Both nativism and multiculturalism fail by avoiding genuine engagement with difference
#complicates(0.82) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 689