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Oxford University sorry for eye contact racism claim [2017 article] (www.bbc.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Lovstuhagen@exploding-heads.com to c/freeforum@exploding-heads.com

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Oxford University has apologised for saying that avoiding eye contact could be "everyday racism" after it was accused of discriminating against autistic people.

The claim was included in a list of "racial micro-aggressions" in an equality and diversity unit newsletter.

But the university was criticised for being "insensitive" to autistic people who can struggle making eye contact.

It said it had made a mistake and not taken disabilities into account.

The university originally said "racial micro-aggressions" might include: "Not making eye contact or speaking directly to people."

It described the behaviours as "subtle, everyday racism" which can be alienating.

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[–] Lovstuhagen@exploding-heads.com 1 points 2 years ago

Not making eye contact is not an issue if it’s consistent between characteristics that aren’t wrong to have different feelings about, such as treating family different than strangers. It is an issue when, again, it’s based on characteristics such as race.

You brought up another issue here - we would have people who are shy and generally uncomfortable around strangers that would have it assumed that their racism is causing them to act in a specific way, creating problems.

We could pretend that these issues don’t exist and not work to correct them. That would be an option, where some people would be treated poorly for no reason. We could also (like this case) work to solve these issues and some people will be treated worse for a reason. Both have some issues, but at least the latter is trying to improve outcomes. Sure, it might make things worse for certain people (in particular, people who deserve worse outcomes because they don’t tolerate others, so should not be tolerated), but the end goal is better at least.

Which would be the best thing to do: to actively oppose racism in our personal lives and to support laws that treat everybody equally, but also to not try to [socially] police microaggressions.

The act of policing microaggressions does more harm than good, IMO.