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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Nov-2024 02:11:43 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

[thread] TRC: Truth and Reconciliation
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I am white, hence born to privilege in a society that to this day remains structurally violent and systemically racist toward all non-white and minority populations.
Structural violence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_violence
Institutional (systemic) racism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism
Critical race theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory
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#TRC #Canada #TRCC #Indigenous #PoC #ResidentialSchools #racism #SystemicRacism #InstitutionalRacism #CRT #StructuralViolence
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  Critical race theory (CRT) is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing how social and political laws and media shape (and are shaped by) social conceptions of race and ethnicity. CRT also considers racism to be systemic in various laws and rules, and not only based on individuals' prejudices. The word critical in the name is an academic reference to critical thinking, critical theory, and scholarly criticism, rather than criticizing or blaming individuals.CRT is also used in sociology to explain social, political, and legal structures and power distribution as through a "lens" focusing on the concept of race, and experiences of racism. For example, the CRT conceptual framework examines racial bias in laws and legal institutions, such as highly disparate rates of incarceration among racial groups in the United States. A key CRT concept is intersectionality—the way in which different forms of inequality and identity are affected by interconnections of race, class, gender, and disability. Scholars of CRT view race as a social construct with no biological basis. One tenet of CRT is that racism and disparate racial...
2. [thread] TRC: Truth and Reconciliation Background I am white, hence born to privilege in a society that to this day remains structurally violent and systemically racist toward all non-white and minority populations. Structural violence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_violence Institutional (systemic) racism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism Critical race theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory ... #TRC #Canada #TRCC #Indigenous #PoC #ResidentialSchools #racism #SystemicRacism # InstitutionalRacism #CRT #StructuralViolence Image source: https://www.indigenousbc.com/national-day-for-truth-and-reconciliation
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