Talk:Tokenism

Similarities with "Uncle Tom" page

All of the examples also apply to the "Uncle Tom" page. Should they should be merged into one page, with Uncle Tom being a subsection of Tokenism?AlexUnknown (talk) 05:08, 25 July 2019 (UTC)

Boris Johnson’s “diversity cabinet” as tokenism or...?

Should Boris Johnson’s hard right Brexiteer cabinet be considered an example of successful tokenist spin? I mean, look at some of the ridiculous la-de-da about its supposed “diversity” simply because it includes some posh, rich Tory assholes with more pigmentation (e.g. Sajid Javid and Priti Patel) than is usual among the posh, rich Tory assholes that typifies Tory cabinets?

Hell, if not for their skin colour, both Javid and Patel are almost ludicrous stereotypes of hard right Toryism with one (Javid) being a former banker deeply involved in the Great Financial Crisis (when the shit hit the fan, he conveniently shifted to politics). Meanwhile, the other (Patel) is a massive Thatcher worshipper who has argued in favour of bringing back the death penalty, only backpedaling when it became a liability to her political career (i.e. when she began jockeying for a cabinet position around 2016), meaning that she either does support capital punishment and simply changed her “official” view for public consumption, or that she is willing to use support of capital punishment simply to garner attention and curry favour with the more regressive elements of the Tory party. ScepticWombat (talk) 21:42, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

The definition

Our given definition is: the practice of using a member of a minority group in order to "prove" how "progressive and forward-thinking" your organization is." There is a bit of progressive projection in this definition. I would add something like: the nominal representation of a minority in an organization; the representation of a a minority group in numbers small enough to be called symbolic rather than practical.Ariel31459 (talk) 16:51, 5 November 2019 (UTC)