A committee in Pomona College’s Asian American Resource Center organized an event to “break down activist language” and explain social justice terms.
According to its description, the AARC “works in collaboration with other ethnic groups, academic departments, and campus offices to sponsor a wide range of educational endeavors.”
Among the terms and phrases discussed were intersectionality, identity politics, structural oppression, safe spaces, “cisheteropatriarchy,” toxic masculinity, white supremacy, and privilege.
...“Sometimes it’s impossible to figure out what students at the Claremont Colleges are talking about, even when we’re talking about things that everyone needs to understand.
Join the AARC’s REACH committee to discuss how we can break down activist language,” states the event description.
...According to its website, the Catalyst Project believes “that racism is one of the fundamental forces keeping systemic injustice in place, and as white people we believe we have a strategic role to play in ending it.”
The author of D.A.T.T., in a description of his ideology, states that he is “interested in the complete liberation of all peoples from white patriarchy, capitalism, oligarchy, colonialism, settlement, as well as orientalism.”
Examples of definitions included “a system of power based on the supremacy & dominance of cisheterosexual men through the exploitation & oppression of women and the LGBTQIA”—drawn from D.A.T.T—for “cisheteropatriarchy.”
“Privilege” was defined as operating “on personal, interpersonal, cultural, and institutional levels and gives advantages, favors, and benefits to members of dominant groups at the expense of members of target groups”—based off a document from Harvey Mudd College’s Office of Institutional Diversity..."
