#tokenism — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4AFsUbgUW4 Sul #politicallycorrect nei film. Già denunciavo la superficialità del #tokenism nei #film, ma non avevo pensato al motivo per cui lo fanno: per poter mettere e togliere quegli elementi con facilità in modo da adattarsi al paese in cui il film viene distribuito 🙈

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4AFsUbgUW4 Sul #politicallycorrect nei film. Già denunciavo la superficialità del #tokenism nei #film, ma non avevo pensato al motivo per cui lo fanno: per poter mettere e togliere quegli elementi con facilità in modo da adattarsi al paese in cui il film viene distribuito 🙈

Powell got the job

#tokenism

Powell got the job

#tokenism

🧵 Ihr wollt unsere Geschichten – aber nicht unsere Sichtbarkeit? Ernsthaft?!

Ich bin so müde davon.
Wirklich.
Immer wieder kommen Journalist*innen mit der Bitte: „Erzähl uns deine Geschichte. Erzähl uns, wie es ist, mehrfach diskriminiert zu werden. Wir wollen deine Perspektive. Die ist so wichtig.“⬇️

#Trans #OwnVoices #TransIsBeautiful #Queer #LGBTQIA #DisabilityJustice #Disability #DisabilityAwareness #Sichtbarkeit #RepresentationMatters #Representation #Tokenism

🧵 Ihr wollt unsere Geschichten – aber nicht unsere Sichtbarkeit? Ernsthaft?!

Ich bin so müde davon.
Wirklich.
Immer wieder kommen Journalist*innen mit der Bitte: „Erzähl uns deine Geschichte. Erzähl uns, wie es ist, mehrfach diskriminiert zu werden. Wir wollen deine Perspektive. Die ist so wichtig.“⬇️

#Trans #OwnVoices #TransIsBeautiful #Queer #LGBTQIA #DisabilityJustice #Disability #DisabilityAwareness #Sichtbarkeit #RepresentationMatters #Representation #Tokenism

Unbequem, radikal, wütend, laut, sichtbar.

Ich wollte mich von Twitter zurückziehen. Der Grund war ein Konflikt mit zwei cis Frauen und einer trans Frau, die über medizinische Versorgung von trans* Menschen diskutierten – ohne bereit zu sein, die Gewalt ihrer eigenen Positionen zu reflektieren.⬇️

#PrideIsARiot #QueerLiberationNow #Queer #LGBTQIA #Trans #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Pride #QueerResistance #Tokenism #Solidarität #SorryNotSorry #Inklusion #Inkluencer #Behinderung #Disability

Unbequem, radikal, wütend, laut, sichtbar.

Ich wollte mich von Twitter zurückziehen. Der Grund war ein Konflikt mit zwei cis Frauen und einer trans Frau, die über medizinische Versorgung von trans* Menschen diskutierten – ohne bereit zu sein, die Gewalt ihrer eigenen Positionen zu reflektieren.⬇️

#PrideIsARiot #QueerLiberationNow #Queer #LGBTQIA #Trans #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Pride #QueerResistance #Tokenism #Solidarität #SorryNotSorry #Inklusion #Inkluencer #Behinderung #Disability

Sad to see how little has progressed on inclusion in the gardening world, though not at all surprised. Good for Tayshan Hayden-Smith for saying something about it though. The sector can be a very exclusive place. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/may/17/royal-horticultural-society-ambassador-tayshan-hayden-smith-quits-made-feel-nuisance?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #TayshanHaydenSmith #EDI #RHS #ChelseaFlowerShow #tokenism #gardening

"Each year I watch the messaging from organizations who roll out their one connection to #disability and promote it. This can be a win when it helps normalize the idea of fellow humans just being, you know, fellow humans. It can be a problem when the effort is #tokenism. It can be a signal of lack of organizational commitment when the messaging itself is #inaccessible."

#GAAD #a11y #accessibility

https://adrianroselli.com/2022/05/the-performative-a11yship-of-gaad.html

The Complete Muhammad Ali and Black Tokenism with Ishmael Reed
#JaredBall
#IshmaelReed #MuhammadAli #Tokenism #CA #SFBA #EastBay #Oakland #Literature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXRMGJ41FtM

The Complete Muhammad Ali and Black Tokenism with Ishmael Reed
#JaredBall
#IshmaelReed #MuhammadAli #Tokenism #CA #SFBA #EastBay #Oakland #Literature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXRMGJ41FtM

@pmcneil

'Ngunna yerrabi yanggu' meaning '(you may) walk on this country now' is a traditional welcome to #Ngunnawal country. - from the link below.

Something like this, "Leave only your footprints on this land" was displayed at the entrance to #NevilleBonnerPrimarySchool.
And almost the whole of the school land covered in concrete and tarmac.

In #Perth, the #Bassendean railway station has Aboriginal advice, "Keep moving or the country will eat you."

#Tokenism

https://www.nca.gov.au/attractions/ngunnawal#

@pmcneil

'Ngunna yerrabi yanggu' meaning '(you may) walk on this country now' is a traditional welcome to #Ngunnawal country. - from the link below.

Something like this, "Leave only your footprints on this land" was displayed at the entrance to #NevilleBonnerPrimarySchool.
And almost the whole of the school land covered in concrete and tarmac.

In #Perth, the #Bassendean railway station has Aboriginal advice, "Keep moving or the country will eat you."

#Tokenism

https://www.nca.gov.au/attractions/ngunnawal#

So hey, Fediverse.

I’ve noticed that # advertisers are sharply moving away from ads with diverse cast and models.

I’m seeing #ads that harken back not look forward.

So, I need your help. Let’s highlight the companies not scared of advertising to a diverse audience and representing the breadth of their customers.

I’m not talking about #tokenism. I’m talking about actual campaigns that follow thru.

I’m gonna start. #woxers recently ran an ad with a #transmasc model. It was glorious.

Your go! I want it all… Holdiay and not… GO!

LGBTQ+ Representation in Video Games: Progress or Tokenism?

https://gallivanting-rainbows.com/read/2024-11-02/lgbtq-representation-in-video-games-progress-or-tokenism #LGBTQRepresentation #VideoGames #Tokenism #GamingIndustry #AuthenticNarratives

LGBTQ+ Representation in Video Games: Progress or Tokenism?

https://gallivanting-rainbows.com/read/2024-11-02/lgbtq-representation-in-video-games-progress-or-tokenism #LGBTQRepresentation #VideoGames #Tokenism #GamingIndustry #AuthenticNarratives

The U.S. two-party electoral system functions as an ideological trap of white supremacy by presenting a false binary choice that constrains political imagination while masking the material reality: both parties advance imperial interests through military spending, global interventions, and economic policies that prioritize corporate power over human needs. And the elevation of Black figures like Barack Obama and Kamala Harris to command the imperial machine demonstrates the continued success of this ideological and political trap, where the incorporation of non-white actors into the U.S. imperial machinery serves to legitimize rather than challenge fundamental power structures. This strategy extends from the neocolonial projects in Africa and the Caribbean back to the Americas, operating with greater sophistication, efficacy, and reach.

As a Black and South Asian woman in power, Harris co-pilots the administration’s agenda, actively undermining Black sovereignty in Haiti, supporting the zionist entity’s genocide of Palestinian people, and guaranteeing the war machine’s bases, contracts, and weapons programs dominate public spending. Her role demonstrates, once again, the reality that white supremacy works not exclusively through explicit racism but through the assimilation of non-white faces into imperial power structures. This makes the people’s oppression more perfect: by diffusing responsibility across seemingly “progressive” representatives while leaving the material conditions of exploitation intact.

Imperial power deliberately splits “domestic” and “foreign” policy to hide how U.S. imperialism dictates conditions at home. When Congress funnels $175 billion to Ukraine and $20 billion to Israel, it makes explicit economic choices that enrich weapons manufacturers while starving healthcare, housing, and education. Military bases and defense contracts deliberately trap communities in economic dependence, building a loyal base that champions endless war. The military-industrial complex colonizes public universities, turning them into research centers for war and destruction while bridges collapse and flooding decimates cities. Democrats deploy civil rights rhetoric, Republicans preach spreading democracy, while both fund apartheid regimes and death squads. What we get, then, are not not policies but an imperial system executing its core mission: sacrificing the people at home to maintain dominance abroad.

Imperial power exposes its true nature when it selectively grants and denies fundamental rights. While Harris claims to defend reproductive rights domestically, she actively supports policies that bomb Palestinian hospitals to smithereens and make childbirth impossible for Palestinian women. This is not just hypocrisy. It is the coherent application of western white-supremacist imperialist logic operating precisely as intended, measuring human worth by their usefulness to U.S. and western interests. The U.S. military, of which domestic police is but a branch, first perfects its surveillance technologies by testing them on occupied populations abroad. These weapons are then deployed against U.S. residents.. Military commanders develop and refine counter-insurgency strategies in foreign wars, then teach police forces to use these same tactics against the domestic population. The war always comes home.

It’s more grisly, even. The military-industrial machine weaponizes poverty itself, by running it through the gristmill converting economic deprivation into a mechanism of imperial control. Military service becomes one of few viable economic options in poor and minority communities, creating a pipeline where economic desperation drives imperial recruitment. Defense industry jobs create constituencies for continued military spending, while technical education, increasingly orients toward military applications. This is not mere economic policy – it is the systematic creation of material dependencies that make challenging imperial power feel impossible.

Breaking free from white supremacy’s ideological traps requires more than electoral theater. It demands organized, militant resistance by the masses of oppressed peoples who understand their struggles cannot be separated: the fight against Cop City is directly tied to the military occupations of Haiti and the genocide in Palestine.

Blackface imperialism is now the order of the day. Fully colonized Negroes functioning as empire’s overseers, shipping weapons for Palestinian genocide, forcing Haiti’s occupation, and militarizing police terror at home. Our liberation demands masses of exploited and colonized peoples advancing militant political education, forging grounded alliances between struggles, and uncompromising, strategic action that gives the empire no peace. The choice lies not between imperial U.S. political parties, but between submission to empire and militant mass struggle for liberation.

Carlos Sirah
source: Black Agenda Report

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/10/31/empires-overseers-the-two-party-trap-of-blackface-imperialism/

#democrats #election #northAmerica #tokenism #us

Rep. #RitchieTorres: No, the #GOP isn’t becoming more #LGBTQ+ #inclusive.

He calls such #claims "#absurd" and says the GOP is more interested in #tokenism than actually #supporting #queer #equality.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/10/rep-ritchie-torres-no-the-gop-isnt-becoming-more-lgbtq-inclusive/

Rep. #RitchieTorres: No, the #GOP isn’t becoming more #LGBTQ+ #inclusive.

He calls such #claims "#absurd" and says the GOP is more interested in #tokenism than actually #supporting #queer #equality.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/10/rep-ritchie-torres-no-the-gop-isnt-becoming-more-lgbtq-inclusive/

#政治正确 #PoliticalCorrectness 这个词本质就是右派政治狗哨

稍微中性的表达是 #身份政治 #IdentityPolitics ，但这一说法也随着右派污名化而变成了社会语境下对多元文化的攻讦；明明右派才是最爱搞身份政治的（MAGA里的「American」就是身份之一），而随着政治狗哨的传播，所有讨论无论正反都开始使用「政治正确」这一说法

在很多时候，表达者所说的「政治正确」其实是想批判 #装点主义 #Tokenism ；但这种批判的目的原本是要求商品生产更加深入和广泛地探索多元主义，而不是反过来；更多的人仅仅是依此为借口（「多元主义的存在要符合〇〇逻辑、要合适〇〇场景、要贴近〇〇历史或〇〇现实」等等）来打压非顺直白男群体的现身和表达，否定多元主义的可见性（#Visibility）。

representative matters. 在文化作品中呈现女性、酷儿、少数族裔、身材积极性等至关重要，因为我们同样是这个社会的一份子；我们的存在并不需要任何「理由」、任何「意义」、任何「适合」才能够在文化作品中出现；反之，正因为我们的存在被打压、被掩盖，才变成了政治正确。

#政治正确 #PoliticalCorrectness 这个词本质就是右派政治狗哨

稍微中性的表达是 #身份政治 #IdentityPolitics ，但这一说法也随着右派污名化而变成了社会语境下对多元文化的攻讦；明明右派才是最爱搞身份政治的（MAGA里的「American」就是身份之一），而随着政治狗哨的传播，所有讨论无论正反都开始使用「政治正确」这一说法

在很多时候，表达者所说的「政治正确」其实是想批判 #装点主义 #Tokenism ；但这种批判的目的原本是要求商品生产更加深入和广泛地探索多元主义，而不是反过来；更多的人仅仅是依此为借口（「多元主义的存在要符合〇〇逻辑、要合适〇〇场景、要贴近〇〇历史或〇〇现实」等等）来打压非顺直白男群体的现身和表达，否定多元主义的可见性（#Visibility）。

representative matters. 在文化作品中呈现女性、酷儿、少数族裔、身材积极性等至关重要，因为我们同样是这个社会的一份子；我们的存在并不需要任何「理由」、任何「意义」、任何「适合」才能够在文化作品中出现；反之，正因为我们的存在被打压、被掩盖，才变成了政治正确。

Inclusive leadership can foster environments where diverse employees feel valued and empowered, balancing empathy, ethics, and efficiency while promoting transparency, mentorship, and constructive dialogue..

#InclusiveLeadership #Diversity #Empathy #Tokenism

https://robert.winter.ink/inclusive-leadership-fostering-diversity-and-equality-in-the-workplace/

Inclusive leadership can foster environments where diverse employees feel valued and empowered, balancing empathy, ethics, and efficiency while promoting transparency, mentorship, and constructive dialogue..

#InclusiveLeadership #Diversity #Empathy #Tokenism

https://robert.winter.ink/inclusive-leadership-fostering-diversity-and-equality-in-the-workplace/

@yukimomo
这就是被左翼广泛批判过、但却被大众当作 #政治正确 口诛笔伐的 #tokenism（#装点主义）

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokenism

@yukimomo
这就是被左翼广泛批判过、但却被大众当作 #政治正确 口诛笔伐的 #tokenism（#装点主义）

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokenism

We need to move beyond the term stakeholder in environmental decision-making (1/2)

"Language matters in shaping perceptions and guiding behaviour. The term stakeholder is widely used, yet little attention is paid to the possibility that its use may inadvertently perpetuate colonial narratives and reinforce systemic inequities. In this article, we critically examine the limitations of the stakeholder concept and its ambiguity, normativity, and exclusionary implications. We emphasise the importance of using language that gives a voice to marginalised groups, promotes inclusion and equity, and fosters meaningful and reflexive participation in decision-making processes. In critiquing the use of the term and calling for alternative practices, we aim to contribute to the decolonisation of research norms and the creation of more inclusive and equitable societies. Therefore, rather than advocating a single alternative term, we suggest a focus on the people, places, and species affected by decisions, interventions, projects, and issues."
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Reed, M.S., Merkle, B.G., Cook, E.J. et al. Reimagining the language of engagement in a post-stakeholder world. Sustain Sci 19, 1481–1490 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01496-4
#environment #ImpactCulture #DecisionMaking #stakeholders #consultation #tokenism #participation #symmetry #IndigenousPeoples #activism #CitizenScience #engagement #collaboration #research #credibility #CitizenEmpowerment #democracy #SettlerSociety #logging #mining #extractivism

We need to move beyond the term stakeholder in environmental decision-making (1/2)

"Language matters in shaping perceptions and guiding behaviour. The term stakeholder is widely used, yet little attention is paid to the possibility that its use may inadvertently perpetuate colonial narratives and reinforce systemic inequities. In this article, we critically examine the limitations of the stakeholder concept and its ambiguity, normativity, and exclusionary implications. We emphasise the importance of using language that gives a voice to marginalised groups, promotes inclusion and equity, and fosters meaningful and reflexive participation in decision-making processes. In critiquing the use of the term and calling for alternative practices, we aim to contribute to the decolonisation of research norms and the creation of more inclusive and equitable societies. Therefore, rather than advocating a single alternative term, we suggest a focus on the people, places, and species affected by decisions, interventions, projects, and issues."
>>
Reed, M.S., Merkle, B.G., Cook, E.J. et al. Reimagining the language of engagement in a post-stakeholder world. Sustain Sci 19, 1481–1490 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01496-4
#environment #ImpactCulture #DecisionMaking #stakeholders #consultation #tokenism #participation #symmetry #IndigenousPeoples #activism #CitizenScience #engagement #collaboration #research #credibility #CitizenEmpowerment #democracy #SettlerSociety #logging #mining #extractivism

"...The stakeholder paradigm (2/2)
reduces the relationships between people and place to financial or economic transactions that ignore the cultural and spiritual significance of the land and the non-human species to which people are inherently connected. Moreover, the term stakeholder has been used to legitimise extractive policies by corporations and governments on Indigenous lands, on the basis that the interests of corporations and governments are as legitimate as Indigenous communities. This framing ignores power imbalances and the histories of colonisation and dispossession that have impacted those communities over many generations. These exploitations inherent in the stakeholder paradigm are directly relevant for research, which aims to engage individuals, groups, organisations, and, in some cases, non-human or other species in decisions, interventions, projects, and issues (Reed and Rudman 2022)."
>>
Reed, M.S., Merkle, B.G., Cook, E.J. et al. Reimagining the language of engagement in a post-stakeholder world. Sustain Sci 19, 1481–1490 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01496-4
#environment #ImpactCulture #biodiversity #stakeholders #DecisionMaking #consultation #tokenism #participation #symmetry #IndigenousPeoples #activism #CitizenScience #engagement #collaboration #research #credibility #CitizenEmpowerment #democracy #SettlerSociety #logging #mining #extractivism #exploitation

"...The stakeholder paradigm (2/2)
reduces the relationships between people and place to financial or economic transactions that ignore the cultural and spiritual significance of the land and the non-human species to which people are inherently connected. Moreover, the term stakeholder has been used to legitimise extractive policies by corporations and governments on Indigenous lands, on the basis that the interests of corporations and governments are as legitimate as Indigenous communities. This framing ignores power imbalances and the histories of colonisation and dispossession that have impacted those communities over many generations. These exploitations inherent in the stakeholder paradigm are directly relevant for research, which aims to engage individuals, groups, organisations, and, in some cases, non-human or other species in decisions, interventions, projects, and issues (Reed and Rudman 2022)."
>>
Reed, M.S., Merkle, B.G., Cook, E.J. et al. Reimagining the language of engagement in a post-stakeholder world. Sustain Sci 19, 1481–1490 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01496-4
#environment #ImpactCulture #biodiversity #stakeholders #DecisionMaking #consultation #tokenism #participation #symmetry #IndigenousPeoples #activism #CitizenScience #engagement #collaboration #research #credibility #CitizenEmpowerment #democracy #SettlerSociety #logging #mining #extractivism #exploitation

例子1:
讨论内容生产行业（影视、游戏等）的#tokenism #身份政治
https://mastodon.social/@hiromst/112258353326137760

例子1:
讨论内容生产行业（影视、游戏等）的#tokenism #身份政治
https://mastodon.social/@hiromst/112258353326137760

Tim Scott and the “Token Black Guy”
Garrison Hayes
@garrisonhayes
#BlackMastodon #Tokenism #MagicalNegro #Whiteness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcEOpjV1Upc&t=22s

Tim Scott and the “Token Black Guy”
Garrison Hayes
@garrisonhayes
#BlackMastodon #Tokenism #MagicalNegro #Whiteness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcEOpjV1Upc&t=22s

🤪🤪🤪

#kuuro #deaf #memes #meemit #disability #food #drink #viittomakieli #signlanguage #tyoelama #tokenism

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#kuuro #deaf #memes #meemit #disability #food #drink #viittomakieli #signlanguage #tyoelama #tokenism

Breaking the Tokenism Cycle: How to Achieve True Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace | Journey to Diversity Workplaces https://www.j2dw.ngo/2023/08/work-tokenism/ #J2DW #Tokenism #Diversity #Equity #Inclusion #cdnpoli @cdnpoli

#LaithAshley on the #Trans #Experience, #Tokenism, and #Working with #taylorswift

"Either I’m too #visiblytrans, or I'm #NotTransEnough," Ashley shared.

#TransMen #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Music #Representation #Culture #BlackMastodon https://www.advocate.com/people/laith-ashley-trans-visibility

#LaithAshley on the #Trans #Experience, #Tokenism, and #Working with #taylorswift

"Either I’m too #visiblytrans, or I'm #NotTransEnough," Ashley shared.

#TransMen #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Music #Representation #Culture #BlackMastodon https://www.advocate.com/people/laith-ashley-trans-visibility

[Parody] To Celebrate Pride, We’re Proud to #Color In Our #Logo for a #month

You’re so welcome, #gay #community—it was literally the least we could do.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Business #Humor #Pride #PrideMonth #Tokenism #Corporations #VirtueSignalling

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/to-celebrate-pride-were-proud-to-color-in-our-logo-for-a-month

[Parody] To Celebrate Pride, We’re Proud to #Color In Our #Logo for a #month

You’re so welcome, #gay #community—it was literally the least we could do.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Business #Humor #Pride #PrideMonth #Tokenism #Corporations #VirtueSignalling

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/to-celebrate-pride-were-proud-to-color-in-our-logo-for-a-month

Chris Hedges: Woke Imperialism
https://scheerpost.com/2023/02/05/chris-hedges-woke-imperialism/
As I've noted before, the liberal vision is a rainbow...of the hands that rob, break, & ultimately kill you. There--isn't that nice.
#Tokenism #Representation #Liberation

Chris Hedges: Woke Imperialism
https://scheerpost.com/2023/02/05/chris-hedges-woke-imperialism/
As I've noted before, the liberal vision is a rainbow...of the hands that rob, break, & ultimately kill you. There--isn't that nice.
#Tokenism #Representation #Liberation

The neurodiversity movement largely insists that autistic characters should be played by autistic actors.

In my view, that's not representation, but tokenism.

The whole point of being an actor is playing a character different from yourself.

Equality is achieved when autistic actors play characters of every stripe and variety, just like non-autistic actors.

#autistic #actor #acting #representation #tokenism #neurodiversity
@actuallyautistic

The neurodiversity movement largely insists that autistic characters should be played by autistic actors.

In my view, that's not representation, but tokenism.

The whole point of being an actor is playing a character different from yourself.

Equality is achieved when autistic actors play characters of every stripe and variety, just like non-autistic actors.

#autistic #actor #acting #representation #tokenism #neurodiversity
@actuallyautistic

Not a token, but a goldmine
I am more than my identity. We are more than our identities, isolated, intersecting or combined.
https://cynthiarodriguez.org/2021/05/03/not-a-token-but-a-goldmine/
#Arts #Culture #Lifestyle #Portfolio #identitypolitics #tokenism