Until last week, we read about the facts that discrimination
created by social engineering injures people, and understood the importance of
reverse social engineering. However, when we faced the issue that how we can achieve
the reverse engineering, there is a large problem of the hardness of speaking out
about the discrimination.
In “Cost of Speaking”, the author writes her own experience that
speaking about employment discrimination in academia gave her the costs of losing
jobs, friends, health, and others. Speaking has too many risks, and the
pressures of risks stop people from speaking out. In “Precariously Positioned Asian
American Women Students’ Negotiating Power in Academia”, the author noted that
the pressure from the public suffers her. The surrounding people are not kind
for the speaker against discrimination, so the actions to change the society of
discrimination are not easy and many people afraid to do that.
To carry out the reverse social engineering, this cost of
speaking is one of the biggest obstructions. Changing society requires the actions of many people, but this pressure prevents the voice to change society larger. Today we face discrimination triggered by the new coronavirus. We see much news and opinions today, but there must be people who cannot speak out because of the pressure and risks of doing that.
Question: What can we do to create a society which is easy
to speak out one’s experience and opinion?
Reference
Valverde, K.-L. C., & Dariotis, W. M. (2020). “Fight the tower: Asian American women scholars’
resistance and renewal in the academy”, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Picture from https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2020/04/14/george-takei-asian-american-discrimination-coronavirus
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