Thread:User talk:Armondikov/Re: Minorities in atheism/skepticism

Split off to avoid de-railing the other thread. But my hunch has always been that "outreach" or quotas wouldn't even be talked about if said "movements" incorporated more minority issues. It's not difficult to do -- there's all sorts of pseudoscience and other crankery tied into bigotry. Hate always generated rationalizations. Think abortion and breast cancer, reparative therapy, the homosexual agenda, abstinence programs, racialism, eugenics (still not totally dead), the Lost Cause mythos and other neo-Confederate hooey, "neurosexism," etc. Of course, this cuts both ways in that minorities have been allowed to get away with some egregious acts of pseudo-scholarship because they are simply "reclaiming their heritage" or some such nonsense. Think Afrocentrism and melanin theory, the goddess movement, the European witch-hunts as a "woman's holocaust," etc. That's a perfect example of the "soft bigotry of low expectations."