Is there a word for the phenomenon where it's easier for people from minority groupings to get into positions of power if they're conservative?
"Thatcher effect" is taken.
@lambdagrrl "respectability"
@patience well yeah but like a specific term
@lambdagrrl idk, 'respectability' has always been pretty concise for me, as it describes the normative consumption of a member of a marginal group being accessible, familiar, photogenic, etc., and requiring the barest minimum of empathy/thought for the population that member is meant to signify/represent. and a member of a group who knows this is the formula which works will go far within that structure of normativity. 'respectability' can also be parsed more derisively as 'sellout' or ''tool'
i mean… i guess one could come up with a highly specific neologism for it, but unless one presented itself memetically at a macro scale, then i doubt it's needed much
@patience Fair. (Though I don't think people like Theresa May are sellouts by virtue of having nothing to sell?)
@lambdagrrl aside from her almost winning the intersectional lottery for being white, cis, het, middle-class, able-bodied, etc. her selling point is being a signifier for whiteness, conservatism, racism, nationalism, control, etc.
@patience yeah, I guess this only works for people in one minority grouping. Maybe in a few decades it'll be up to two.
@lambdagrrl @patience also "appeasement," for many of the same reasons as "respectability."
@lambdagrrl in my (biased) experiences, an individual who experiences a solitary marginality, intersectionally speaking, are best poised to do the greatest, most sadistic harm to marginal populations — under aegis of reinforcing oppressive hegemonies (classism, racism, sexism, heterosexism, etc.) and then backing it with a rationale, if challenged: "hey, i know what it's like to be marginal/minority." in practice, their adherence to that conservatism/hegemonic system treats them as proxies for maintaining that hegemony & are conditionally welcomed as provisional members (cos "hey, can't hold that one thing against them if they're doing our bidding, right?")