Showing posts with label Fallacy: Tokenism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fallacy: Tokenism. Show all posts

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Tokenism

If you interpret a merely token gesture as an adequate substitute for the real thing, you've been taken in by tokenism.

Example:

How can you call our organization racist? After all, our receptionist is African American.
If you accept this line of reasoning, you have been taken in by tokenism.

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