| pepharytheworm said: Just as prejudices are learned and not inherent, so is reconizing our own prejudices. We all develop some form of prejudices as we develop, but we should try to reconize these behaviors and correct them as we come to undestand them. The only thinking thing that could not develop some form of prejudice is a mine free of ignorance. We are all ignorant in some ways and always learning.
Being open about having prejudices is not what is causing all the racism and hate, it's failure to work on your prejudical behaviors. You got to reconize a behavior before it can be fixed. |
That's what I've been saying mate, the behavioural traits are developed hence my example with the infants, we're only born with learning that is more advance then many animals, the reason why racism, sexism and so on don't die is that the world around us develops us in a way where we develop those traits. It's a flaw in the society around us essentially from subliminal messages to portrayl in media, ignorance is born as a result of this flaw as well, if you asked someone to describe Africa a significant number will think it's all mud huts and warlords for example as media portrayal does a lot in mentally programming people.
Identifying a behaviour early is one thing but as long as the current structure of the system remains how it is little progression will be made and it'll open up a whole can or worms because tackling flaws in the system is harder and often more personal to people then simply spreading messages trying to stamp out racism, the latter has done all it can at this point. An example of what I'm talking about is how heated people got in the thread about White Privilege, some took some of the posts as an attack on white people when it was really about whether the system approaches the group differently, dealing with racism on all levels would bring topics like this up and things would get extremely heated.
