Imposed terms get adopted for self-identification all the time. You listed "colored" as an imposed term, but it is still part of the NAACP name. The fact that they are now discarded doesn't change the fact that those terms were common for decades.
the history of many imposed terms is different then than it is now.
as a social phenomena, i see the need for "of diversity" related to the sense that those traditionally with the most power feeling besieged - thus terms to declare "them" vs an unnamed "us".
this is a significantly different stance in two ways. first, previous stances were clearly about superiority and inferiority. second, the previous imposed terms left a larger "us" - if the "them" is drawn on race, then there is a large number of "us", homosexuality: large "us", etc. however, "of diversity" casts far more people as "them" and far fewer as "us".
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as a general observation:
as a power dynamic in kyriarchy, the prime power holders depend on power lent to them by the oppressed with privileges intersecting the privileges of the prime power holders. this framing will places the prime power holders in opposition to the union of those who are oppressed.
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"them" v. "us"
Date: 2010-05-14 08:02 pm (UTC)as a social phenomena, i see the need for "of diversity" related to the sense that those traditionally with the most power feeling besieged - thus terms to declare "them" vs an unnamed "us".
this is a significantly different stance in two ways. first, previous stances were clearly about superiority and inferiority. second, the previous imposed terms left a larger "us" - if the "them" is drawn on race, then there is a large number of "us", homosexuality: large "us", etc. however, "of diversity" casts far more people as "them" and far fewer as "us".
* * *
as a general observation:
as a power dynamic in kyriarchy, the prime power holders depend on power lent to them by the oppressed with privileges intersecting the privileges of the prime power holders. this framing will places the prime power holders in opposition to the union of those who are oppressed.