The row centres around the exhibition ‘This is Colonialism’ and the museum’s decision to restrict white people from entering a small section of the display
Police officers are gathered in front of the Zeche Zollern museum in Dortmund, the focus of what social networks are describing as a racism scandal.
The row centres around the exhibition ‘This is Colonialism’ and the museum’s decision to restrict white people from entering a small section of the display. For several months now, Saturdays at the museum have been reserved for black people and people of colour to explore a colonialism exhibition
The museum claims the objective is not to be discriminatory, but to reserve a safe space for reflection for non-whites.
Do you also consider affirmative action racism? Is women’s sports blocking male competitors misandry?
There’s a world where this could be racist, but it’s not the one we live in yet.
No
Misandry is a strong word for it, but I would say it’s not ideal. Of course, there’s also the broader issue of the most physical sports being, by their nature, a discriminatory (in the most literal, not moral, sense of the word) endeavor, from weight to height to genetics, and since I’m not a big sports person to begin with, I try not to have strong opinions on the subject.
I do have strong opinions on non-physical sports with separate women’s divisions, and especially those which bar women from participating in non-women’s divisions.
So how about something like chess or e-sports, which have little physical demands if at all? (It’s my understanding that both have open leagues and women’s leagues – no women exclusionary leagues.) Do you think it’s (problematically) discriminatory to have women’s only leagues? If so, why?
Ahh, see, that to me seems exactly what is being intended here: to help make a space more accessible for an otherwise under-represented group. That’s why it doesn’t strike me as being particularly segregationist, even though I’d agree that in a vacuum it’s problematic.