What is the "Successor Ideology"?
The Good Fight
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Is Perfectionism Part of a Successor Ideology?
Sally Kohn: If there is a dominant standard, not just of beauty, but of professionalism, which says that what professional hair looks like. And so any sort of hairstyle that you can present with as a black person is by definition unprofession. Then there's a real injustice being done here and a sort of seemingly objective standard, but of course you have to come to your office looking sort of proper is actually deeply racially coded. She asks whether we think our current standards in the United States are discriminatory and unfair.
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