Positive 'Isms'

In response to Carrisa Sacherski's post "To End All Isms" (11/18/2012):

In her post, Carrisa argues that if everyone thought critically, negative 'isms,' like racism and sexism, would disappear.  I think it is possible to extend that concept to all 'isms' apart from non-normative ones (such as constructivism or Hinduism).

Today's so-called positive 'isms,' such as gender egalitarianism (or equalism) or cultural relativism, only exist in response to negative social conditions.  If gender-based discrimination did not exist, gender egalitarianism would not need to exist as a concept; it would simply be the default state for everyone.  If people were open to other cultures' traditions, they would not have to invent a special term for this recognition of cultural differences.  This, in combination with the point Carrisa makes in her post, would lead to the elimination of all normative 'isms.'

Some words with that suffix would remain, but they would not connect directly to ethics.  Religions such as Judaism would probably still exist; but without religiously based discrimination, they would have no positive or negative value.  Philosophical viewpoints such as realism or fallibilism would also exist; these might have an indirect connection to ethics, in that they might imply different things about how one should live, but they themselves would not be viewpoints on ethics.