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>Honestly I think it's better than nothing. Actually, I think the forced class makes the situation worse. My life experiences tells me classes and other attem
by jasode 9y ago
>Honestly I think it's better than nothing.
Actually, I think the forced class makes the situation worse. My life experiences tells me classes and other attempts at "re-education" only hardens the attitudes for hatred and discrimination.
For a person to change their racism/homophobia, it requires interaction with another human that triggers an emotional component. For example, a person who despises gays has a child grow up to be gay which changes their mind. Or a somebody who hates blacks later ends up stuck in the front line of a war with other blacks watching each others' backs and it eliminates (or lessens) the prejudice.
It doesn't mean that positive human interactions will always "cure" everyone but it seems to be more effective than classes.
Classes are more useful for cultural/etiquette topics (e.g. how to hold business cards with 2 hands in Japan).
- eric_h 9y agoThere's a very good chance you're correct, of course. I suppose my comment was just my general hopeful optimism coming out. Really, though, how does one actually "deprogram" someone with opinions like this? Can it actually be done? Casual racists are a toxic population whose opinions and behaviors in favor of said racism bring no value to society. How on earth do we eliminate it? I used to think that the steamroller of progress and information would gradually eliminate racism and sexism and denial of science and logic as older generations died out, but the rise of the next generation of racists and MRAs and flat earthers seems to be a fairly strong counterpoint to that. I fear for the future of humanity.