An undergraduate in arts # 2

Source Text:

The fact that both in an anti-racist as well as a racist discourse the same principles are used implies that an appeal to these principles is not a very effective strategy for combating prejudice and racism. Stressing the moral unacceptability of discrimination and calling on tolerance, is not effective when almost everybody accepts these principles. Such an appeal can even be counterproductive because these principles are used to justify one’s own racist views and position, and to question the position of minority groups and the people who stand up for them. (p.450)

Source:

Verkuyten, Maykel, De Jong, Wiebe, Masson, Kees “Similarities in Anti-Racist and Racist Discourse: Dutch Local Residents Talking About Ethnic Minorities” in Academic Reading: reading & writing in the disciplines. Ed. Janet Giltrow. Peterborough ON: Broadview, 2002. (pp. 434-452)

Writer’s Text

Verkuyten, De Jong and Masson (1994) argued that that anti-racist arguments which avoid moralistic and doctrinaire forms are the most effective. They argued that both racist and anti-racist arguments were based on the same principles and that appealing to the moral unacceptability of discrimination was ineffective.

Writer’s comment:

I have to show that what I’m saying is my own ideas but somehow different from my citation. So I’m trying to reword that citation…so that signals to the reader that in fact it’s me talking, but that’s not my own words, it’s restructuring from those (authors’ ) words.