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

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.

  • PugJesus@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Do you also consider affirmative action racism?

    No

    Is women’s sports blocking male competitors misandry?

    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.

    • enkers
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      1 year ago

      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?

      it welcomes them into areas previously closed off.

      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.