bigots often misidentify themselves as the victims of hate campaigns because they really do believe the lies that are embedded in dogwhistles. like… there’s a lot of ICE supporters who don’t have the awareness that when the current US admin calls someone “a criminal” they mean “as a classification of person” not as “person who does crimes” or when they use “Low IQ” they mean “minority”
like… there’s a ton of people out there who actually think “Michele Obama is a low IQ person” is about Michele Obama specifically instead of the result of calling all Black people “low IQ”
so in the case of Orson Scott Card, what’s happening is when he says “be more patient and analyze your misconceptions about people” he doesn’t mean marginalized people, he means about himself, a person with a dominant identity in culture whose been gently asked to make room for other people feels marginalized by that request
bigots often misidentify themselves as the victims of hate campaigns because they really do believe the lies that are embedded in dogwhistles. like… there’s a lot of ICE supporters who don’t have the awareness that when the current US admin calls someone “a criminal” they mean “as a classification of person” not as “person who does crimes” or when they use “Low IQ” they mean “minority”
like… there’s a ton of people out there who actually think “Michele Obama is a low IQ person” is about Michele Obama specifically instead of the result of calling all Black people “low IQ”
so in the case of Orson Scott Card, what’s happening is when he says “be more patient and analyze your misconceptions about people” he doesn’t mean marginalized people, he means about himself, a person with a dominant identity in culture whose been gently asked to make room for other people feels marginalized by that request