Title: Marginalization - New Discourses
Headings: Marginalization
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Content: These social constructions are deemed to be real, permanent, and unjust and in need of disruption, which can only be adequately achieved through a social revolution that remakes the system in a new way without oppression. Members of marginalized groups are considered in need of protection under Social Justice Theory, usually through programs such as diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Members of putatively marginalized groups who do not claim to experience or suffer from their alleged oppression are dismissed as inauthentic and likely to be suffering from some internalized racism, sexism, or normativity (see also, false consciousness, consciousness raising, critical consciousness, internalized racism, internalized oppression, internalized sexism, internalized ableism, and internalized misogyny ), or acting cynically in pursuit of some kind of reward from the dominant power structure in society (see also, acting white, patriarchal reward, male approval; and neoliberal reward ). This has the effect of ensuring that the marginalized can only speak from and into Theory, turning them into tokenistic props for an abstract endeavor that may not represent them, their feelings, or their interests (see also, hegemony ). Social Justice is particularly concerned with the marginalization of people from minoritized groups in their capacity as knowers and thus of their knowledges. This is a particularly fruitful vein of (Theoretical) research in both Social Justice epistemology and critical pedagogy (theory of education). The central claim is that one of of the primary ways in which dominant groups maintain their dominance is by marginalizing other groups as knowers and discounting their ways of knowing, which might include traditions, superstitions, myths, and other cultural beliefs of practices. A wide variety of concepts seek to explore this problematic, including epistemic injustice, epistemic oppression, epistemic violence, epistemic death; active ignorance, pernicious ignorance, willful ignorance, white ignorance, orientalism, hermeneutical injustice, and testimonial injustice.