We have a real hand-wringing attitude toward tokenism and I'm like, 'Guys, we have not even achieved tokenism yet.
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She described the event as a "baby step" and "tokenism".
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Even so, those campaigns can carry a whiff of tokenism.
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The very idea of tokenism has some offensive implications, though.
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Swift has expressed a similar opinion on tokenism in past interviews.
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Yet some Malays have decried what they see as shallow tokenism.
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But the film should also strive to go beyond mere tokenism.
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Hari Nef is skeptical of what she sees as cultural tokenism.
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" Sarah Turner, founder of Angel Academe, summed it up: "No tokenism here.
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That doesn't mean tokenism is dead, but their impact permeated the web.
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It would be tokenism, which is much more offensive than blatant sexism.
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But its earliest efforts at female representation can now seem like tokenism.
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Is any acceptance of a Black artist really just another form of tokenism?
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On Twitter Asanga Welikala, a law lecturer, described this gesture as "absolute rubbish tokenism".
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She wasn't convincingly written and felt like a product of tokenism as a result.
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This wasn't Joan Smalls and Adwoa Aboah on every single runway; it wasn't tokenism.
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But it can be tricky to make such changes without being accused of tokenism.
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Shying away from them would make all the work it does nothing but tokenism.
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Part of the actors' concerns with #AsianAugust lie within the discussion of normalization versus tokenism.
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Some of what we're talking about is an end to tokenism, as Mr. Ansari noted.
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Tokenism is when you use the race of your friends to bolster your own credibility.
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Being forced to fit in like that is a well-documented psychological phenom called tokenism.
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But the move came off ham-handedly, opening up Meadows to accusations of tokenism. Rep.
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They were put on the spotlight as 'here's tokenism,' and he didn't seem to accept that.
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Despite decades of cultural breast-beating, panel discussions and industry initiatives, tokenism in women's fashion remains.
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It's almost as though we have to choose between tokenism and exclusion, and neither is good, obviously.
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Having one moment in the show devoted to the #MeToo narrative is not representation, it is tokenism.
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They argue that they are being discriminated against in a process of "reverse racism/sexism" or tokenism.
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It's worth thinking critically about the shows you watch, and recognizing where diverse casting is just tokenism.
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But others thought it was tokenism, saying a more robust gesture was needed to reinforce the message.
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Furthermore, the whole 'tokenism' argument presumes diversity isn't intrinsically valuable, but that claim needs to be argued for.
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What to watch: A new generation of Dalit leaders has started to reject tokenism and seek genuine empowerment.
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Ms. Jacobson's character, the only girl in the six-ninja squad, barely rises to the level of tokenism.
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This is the world that brought us modern American tokenism, both as a word and as a practice.
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You never want to think that there's a crazy influx — a 180 from last year — because of [tokenism].
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The editor of Walrus, a better-known magazine, decried "political correctness, tokenism and hypersensitivity" in cultural and academic bodies.
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Their inclusion on his coveted "Following" list reeks of the same tokenism that their appearances at his rallies did.
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Such tokenism is seen as unacceptable — and rightfully so — in any other space where a marginalized community feels threatened.
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For many of the actors on Discovery, that lack of any hint of tokenism in general is a real relief.
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But these gestures, independent of any indication that the wizarding world is diversifying as a whole, feel increasingly like tokenism.
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Ferrera says that the difference between tokenism and actual diversity in the casting process is an important and authentic one.
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" Onyewuenyi says, "It's a form of tokenism that the jacket silences, subverting the light in and around the black body.
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"Some people think it's tokenism and implies that women can't hold their own against their equivalent male artists, " she added.
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Almost always, this means finding white partners—rendering equity programs little more than a cynical example of tokenism at best.
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Through its meandering narratives, OITNB explored and began important conversations about police brutality, white feminism, tokenism, sexual assault, and mental health.
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"Once you get past the tokenism and start adding enough characters of color — like, they all have different personalities," said Lord.
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Or worse: recent research from America shows that diversity statements can put off minorities, possibly because they perceive them as tokenism.
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In retrospect, the crew's composition might look like tokenism, but cultural differences were also integral to the show's ethos and structure.
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I have seen and experienced the tokenism and exploitation of minorities in the admissions process in many parts of our country.
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Mr El Shahaby's snub seems mere tokenism compared to the bullets that killed 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972.
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To these folks, the black man in the ads is an example of forced tokenism, a symptom of an overly-PC culture.
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But the stagecraft and typecasting of their appointments are definitely what you might call tokenism, writ large and on full, public display.
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I don't want to see anymore tokenism or just pigeonholing people of color into stories that aren't theirs in order to avoid controversy.
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The 2016-17 seasons have increased the number of female ballet makers; it is not yet clear whether this is more than tokenism.
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If students' personal experiences are beside the pedagogical point, then diversity on campus serves a cosmetic role: it is a kind of tokenism.
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In February 2018, journalist Keith Murphy wrote about the issues faced by "lone, token" Black actors, and how ultimately tokenism doesn't solve industry prejudice.
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This collection of Rich's influential criticism reveals how her private reckonings with motherhood, sexuality, Jewishness and tokenism blossomed into her public stances and poetry.
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A wider range of people backing conservative principles — from small government and low taxes, to free trade and policies supporting strong families — is not tokenism.
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" As Rent-A-Minority explains on the site, it's a parody of "a type of tokenism that is particularly rife in the tech and media world.
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We share mild to moderate anxiety over being mischaracterized through branding as a product of tokenism: Look, two boob-havers side by side, warbling about emotions!
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As the highest ranking openly gay member of the Trump administration, Grenell proves he's far from an example of tokenism with every statement and slamming tweet.
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"In today's media, we often see tokenism and gimmicks, what I call forced diversity," said Joe Casely-Hayford, the longtime London-based designer, who is black.
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Meaning that the Benetton-esque tokenism/checking the diversity boxes that exists in mainstream America will no longer exist if Browntourage has anything to do with it.
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That year his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" stressed the failure of even the most enlightened white ministers and rabbis to abandon tokenism on behalf of actual justice.
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The scene had already sparked a debate among viewers, with many applauding Disney for the momentous first in the storied franchise, while others criticized it as tokenism.
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Opponents might argue that actively forcing diversity is tokenism, that choosing in favour of women means potentially ignoring more qualified male acts who too deserve to be there.
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This suggests the 'tokenism' narrative around quotas is hard to shake, and might even be creating negative self-appraisals in the very people quotas are designed to help.
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This is how it is now and if you don't double down and stay the course of celebrating the truth of all women, it will come off as tokenism.
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In her essay "The Weight," Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah writes about her resentment of Baldwin's status as the black American essayist, and how it is so often reduced to tokenism.
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Trump represented a return to a not so friendly period of time when women were objects, minorities were second-class citizens, and diversity meant tokenism, not an actual meritocracy.
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And the actress wrote an essay for Deadline highlighting why she thinks Superstore is different from any show she had been on before: Its commitment to diversity over tokenism.
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But that hinges on commitment to provide space for people with different backgrounds in a way that accords those who have been left out a value beyond mere tokenism.
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Though his works sometimes carried references to African-American spiritual music and jazz, they were not his main calling card, and he was wary of tokenism in his field.
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"To me, there's no sense of tokenism because I know I can do the job — I'm qualified to do the job, I can do a great job," she said.
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The government must provide for women's meaningful participation — not tokenism — in accordance with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325, which calls for incorporating women into all facets of peace building.
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So when I went out to audition for Coco, it was refreshing to read a character who commands a room, speaks her mind eloquently, and addresses the very issue of tokenism.
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Cultural reactionaries rely on people accepting their position — in this case, a world where only white men do things — as the apolitical default, making any aberration an example of "forced" tokenism.
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The term "normalizing" isn't about tokenism or trotting out tired and offensive stereotypes; it's about giving characters from all backgrounds the opportunity to tell their story, without making it the story.
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I'm apprehensive about the limitations inherent in canonization, mainly canon's inadequate literary representation of difference as tokenism, and the prohibitive inaccessibility for those who can't afford education at the highest levels.
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The funny pages and editorial cartoons at the major dailies don't fair much better, either, leading to accusations of tokenism, appropriation, and work that simply doesn't reflect its audience any longer.
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"Women don't want to be in a position of tokenism, so they don't want to serve as the only one, the role model to get through the glass ceiling," Athanasopoulou says.
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This is a moment of extreme tokenism, one in which exhibition spaces co-opt political movements or artistic identities and pat themselves on the back for their diversification, for their "radical" inclusion.
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In this context, finishing the exhibition with female-only contemporary painters, each represented by a single piece and awkwardly crammed together into a tiny final room, feels like tokenism and positive discrimination.
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The most egregious case of tokenism was that of Evelyn Rodriguez and Freddy Cuevas, a couple whose daughter, Kayla Cuevas, was killed by MS-13 gang members on Long Island in 2016.
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Fashion as an art is consistently at the vanguard of inclusion, but as a business it is also privy to tokenism in order to 'say' it's progressive without hurting its bottom line.
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Mr. Lew's proposition to leave Hamilton on the front and put a "vignette of female historical figures" on the reverse of the $10 bill now being designed seems like little more than tokenism.
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Many chefs and journalists contended that the award's very existence smacked of tokenism, especially when bestowed upon a chef, like Ms. Crenn, whose restaurant has never appeared on the World's 50 Best list.
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With Sherald's romantic figures at the center, About Face explored portraiture as an effective tool for envisioning a more inclusive and authentic America, one created by diverse authors and devoid of tokenism and exoticism.
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"We're still seeing tokenism and we're not yet seeing widespread acceptance of models across categories — models of various sizes, ages, races and gender identities," Sara Ziff, founder of The Model Alliance, told the site.
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Obviously much has changed, but too many new movies just play the tokenism game, using minorities as accessories or emblems of the white character's presumptive good intentions — like the Prius parked in the driveway.
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SYDNEY, Australia — Australian military veterans recoiled at a government-backed policy that would allow them to board some commercial airlines ahead of other passengers, calling the move a political stunt that smacked of tokenism.
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We could have introduced a new gay character, but he or she would have been primarily defined by their sexuality, seen as the 'gay character', rather than simply for who they are, and isn't that tokenism?
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" On Friday morning in their chilly Washington studio, over a standard-issue cable news glass table, hosts and guests denounced blind support for female candidates as "lady boss yass queen feminism" and sneered at "woke tokenism.
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The term "tokenism" has developed because there's not enough diversity in general media, and I think to balance that, as a writer, you need to be aware that the world you're crafting isn't in a vacuum.
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"We will see the numbers start to even out ... only when companies truly embrace the need for diversity in boardroom discussions and progress beyond tokenism and box ticking," Togobo told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by email.
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He's describing tokenism — the idea that you need a certain quota of "token" members of marginalized groups for the sake of "diversity," regardless of whether those members are actually qualified or actually represent their group's interests.
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Was he demanding Jews be counted among minorities in America, or was he tacitly acknowledging that his white maleness was costuming for his ethnic status and so offering a sly critique of our culture of superficial tokenism?
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Few people beyond the art world have heard of her, and the work on view here proves that she was such an intriguing individual and artist, this show is so much more than the product of tokenism.
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Being a journalist of color was challenging enough—a reality that surfaces throughout the book, whether she's grappling with feelings of tokenism or working harder than her peers, for less pay, to get ahead in the corporate world.
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"The debate that threatened to swallow this year's Oscars continues to dominate — as it should — but the tricky thing with casting diversely is avoiding the kind of tokenism that only pays lip service to the issue," Ferrera writes.
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There was a sort of idea of tokenism, but I thought the way that it was actually handled in the film was great, because it was just like Star Trek should be—that it's just not a big deal.
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Which raises the question: Broader representation is great, but is this casting mere tokenism, or will the varied cultural experiences of people of color be reflected on shows on which the character wasn't written to be any particular race?
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BAYETÉ: Being the token is interesting, because on the one hand you want to go against the concept of tokenism and don't want to be people's mascot, allowing them to feel more multicultural and progressive than they actually are.
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Indeed, the dynamics of tokenism — one woman on an otherwise all-male board — work against the dissent Buffett urges boards to embrace and instead can encourage conformity, when women fear being seen as "not team players" if they ask tough questions.
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Insecure is really the story of two women—your character Issa and her best friend Molly (Yvonne Orji)—and their dating foibles, workplace tokenism, living a double consciousness, projecting different versions of their black female selves in any given moment.
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While Ayoung impressively addresses the legacy of slavery and racial prejudice in the United States, however, it feels like a missed opportunity, if not a case of tokenism, that only one artwork mentions the Tuskegee experiment, cited twice in the press release.
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Merging the tokenism thrust upon him from roles in 30 Rock and Girls and a storyline pegged to music's most listened to genre, he exposes a wider audience to what seems like exaggerated humor, but is actually not out of the norm.
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Perhaps it's partially to compensate for a century of broad stereotypes, egregious and ongoing whitewashing, and tokenism, but this current variety of hicksploitation seems to say, "How do you like it, whitey," which is not to say that it's a totally new phenomenon.
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In the truest form of what some would call "tokenism," Trump proudly pushed forward a single man to represent an entire community, and masked the real efforts of his administration to either slow walk or outright reject real criminal justice reform efforts.
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MT: Ultimately, we need more people not just as writers but in decision-making positions in media and publishing, who are empowered to speak with their genuine perspectives rather than just visually and socially represent their minority positions, which is the very definition of tokenism.
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The most conspicuous effect of what we might call Abstract Expressionist tokenism is the absence of a historical center of gravity: instead of all succeeding art appearing to line up for or against its influence, the other works seem to float freely in their own orbits.
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Hurley does see overall progress, and applauds such brands as Fenty Beauty and ASOS for their proven commitment to diversity, and names model Leomie Anderson, Oscar-winning actress Lupita N'yongo, and Afro-Latina rapper Amara La Negra for bringing discussions about colorism and tokenism to the mainstream.
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It's worth emphasizing how unbelievably refreshing it is to see women of color leading a story and having the scene not fall victim to the tokenism we too often see on TV. These are just two badass officers on a mission, solving problems, and kicking ass.
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"As the Saudi Crown Prince tours the world presenting himself as a 'reformer,' he is arresting the women's rights activists who refuse to accept his tokenism, leaving it to us to make their voices heard," Kenneth Roth, executive director at Human Rights Watch, wrote in a tweet.
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You remain unlikely to see Asian-Americans in lead roles in big studios films without the hint of tokenism, even after the box office success of this year's "Crazy Rich Asians," the first studio film with an all-Asian cast since "The Joy Luck Club" in 21965.
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At a panel discussion that accompanied the Studio School exhibit, some artists and curators argued that gender-based shows encourage tokenism and relegate women to the sidelines, while others argued that, after centuries of art shows that featured only men, all-women shows are a necessary corrective.
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Tokenism and hollow attempts at mere correctness abound, but so do real revelations, as every exhibition season brings overlooked artists to light and recognizes neglected icons: Most recently, a remodeled MoMA opened its fall season with shows by two black artists, the 22012-year-old performance maverick Pope.
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SCOTT It turns out that when "diversity" means something more than pandering or tokenism — when, as in the case of "Black Panther," an African-American filmmaker can claim the freedom to explore the cultural and political valences of an African superhero — a worked-over franchise can be revivified.
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The Obamacare replacement proposal singles out the opioid crisis as a problem deserving a special fund of $45 billion, and while it's plainly a gesture to try to woo some of the moderate Republicans, using this fund to trade-away the Medicaid entitlement is symptomatic of our health care tokenism at large.
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Rivera points out that "the trend in reggaeton is for each label to have their one female on the label, and that covers it for them," which is still a kind of gender tokenism — and these women most often collaborated with male artists, from J Balvin to Bad Bunny, rather than with other women.
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"I have never looked at tokenism as a bad thing, as long as the brand, the client — whoever has the mission — continues to branch out and say, 'This was our first time; next time we're going to add more of the race, the gender, the sexuality, the religion, the disability,' whatever it is," she explained.
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Then, of course, there is the question of how sincere a gesture it is to put a trans model on the cover of your magazine, or in your latest campaign, or on your runway, when, in 2017, it seems that many brands or designers don't realize that casting one trans person isn't inclusivity, its tokenism.
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Commercial 1 -- Elizabeth Warren (or Joe Biden or Corey Booker or someone we've yet to hear of) talks about macro-level trade data, how the efforts of the Trump administration amounted to little more than tokenism and how manufacturing job loss has continued despite companies making periodic announcements that they will restore a few hundred jobs.
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At the same time, if this system insists that your only value is tokenism — to push a janitor's mop, say, or play the maternal Latina maid, the kooky Asian lady or the robotically supportive wife of any color — you have to ask if this system is worth chipping away at one positive representation and one Oscar nod at a time.
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We are expected to agree (and we comply!) with the paternal admonition that it is irresponsible and hyperemotional to request one female president after 241 years of male ones — because that would be tokenism, anti-democratic and dangerous — as though generations of white male politicians haven't proven themselves utterly disinterested in caring for the needs of communities to which they do not belong.
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Electronic Arts did not respond to a request for comment, but here's what Daniel Berlin, lead designer at EA's DICE studio, had to say about the choice to put a black man on the cover in an interview with VentureBeat: But since the game itself makes no effort to present black soldiers as anything other than a small aside in a laudably emotional campaign... Isn't it just shoehorned, pandering tokenism after all?
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