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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7896577" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>Yes. Absolutely. So about that...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Which one? I've been offered about five, including the Urban Dictionary one. None of them quite fit all the different ways that people have been using "gatekeeping". This is what you'd expect when you take a neutral term with an understood meaning that is clear from the words that make it up (gate + keeping) and you try to turn it into a complex term of art that implies words like "discriminatory" and "derogatory" without actually having those words in the term. Definitions shouldn't require essays, and if they do, you probably should just invent a term that no one else has used before so as to avoid being misunderstood. Like, zorblofing or something.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No I'm not. Look at the context again. I was trying to explain that invitations can sometimes be discriminatory and sometimes not, just as gatekeeping can sometimes be discriminatory and sometimes not.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't really understand where you are driving with that.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't think I said that they did. I just said that discrimination is still discrimination whether it is from an individual or an institution. It's the discriminatory act and motive that makes it discrimination, and not secondary characteristics that can appear in either discriminatory acts or non-discriminatory acts. Thus, it doesn't matter whether for example gatekeeping occurred through not sending an invitation, or deciding that the person didn't look right when they were at the door. What we care about is whether the motive is discriminatory.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But is all limitation of access to a group discriminatory? I don't care really whether they are taking it upon themselves or not. I care whether they are discriminating. There can be lots of reasons why a person gets access and acceptance within a community, or doesn't get them, that have nothing to do with discrimination. When you start conflating all gatekeeping with discrimination though, you're quickly going to lose that distinction. There is a tautology being set up here as a way to shut down discourse, so that "you were gatekeeping me" is the same as saying "you were discriminating against me". And it's not. For examples, go back to the start.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7896577, member: 4937"] Yes. Absolutely. So about that... Which one? I've been offered about five, including the Urban Dictionary one. None of them quite fit all the different ways that people have been using "gatekeeping". This is what you'd expect when you take a neutral term with an understood meaning that is clear from the words that make it up (gate + keeping) and you try to turn it into a complex term of art that implies words like "discriminatory" and "derogatory" without actually having those words in the term. Definitions shouldn't require essays, and if they do, you probably should just invent a term that no one else has used before so as to avoid being misunderstood. Like, zorblofing or something. No I'm not. Look at the context again. I was trying to explain that invitations can sometimes be discriminatory and sometimes not, just as gatekeeping can sometimes be discriminatory and sometimes not. I don't really understand where you are driving with that. I don't think I said that they did. I just said that discrimination is still discrimination whether it is from an individual or an institution. It's the discriminatory act and motive that makes it discrimination, and not secondary characteristics that can appear in either discriminatory acts or non-discriminatory acts. Thus, it doesn't matter whether for example gatekeeping occurred through not sending an invitation, or deciding that the person didn't look right when they were at the door. What we care about is whether the motive is discriminatory. But is all limitation of access to a group discriminatory? I don't care really whether they are taking it upon themselves or not. I care whether they are discriminating. There can be lots of reasons why a person gets access and acceptance within a community, or doesn't get them, that have nothing to do with discrimination. When you start conflating all gatekeeping with discrimination though, you're quickly going to lose that distinction. There is a tautology being set up here as a way to shut down discourse, so that "you were gatekeeping me" is the same as saying "you were discriminating against me". And it's not. For examples, go back to the start. [/QUOTE]
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