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I think the answer is partially in your quote: emphasis the similarities. Women of all colors, backgrounds, and economic statuses are sexually harassed and ass
by wefweoiu23j 9y ago
I think the answer is partially in your quote: emphasis the similarities.
Women of all colors, backgrounds, and economic statuses are sexually harassed and assaulted.
Men of all colors, backgrounds, and economic statuses are sexually harassed and assaulted.
These are facts of reality.
Our culture makes it such that women are more likely to be on the receiving end. But it doesn't make the fact that both sexes in various backgrounds are victims.
How do we help people with emotional or health issues? We don't unless they can pay for it.
Oh, you mean wealth inequality may play into "Us vs Them?" mentalities?
Another example:
Everyone race, gender, and creed has been some victim of society in the past. Irish slaves, African slaves... I knew my great-grandfather on my dad's side; 100% Chippewa Indian with papers to prove it, family documents that went back 3 generations prior to HIM being born, not me.
When suddenly everyone has a historical claim, but society only recognizes the claims of a minority because it can be traced back along arbitrary legal lines (which include by todays standards some pretty horrific violence and theft)... well you have a ripe field for "us vs them" when it comes to which claim.
But since almost anyone can make a claim, and since the special elite we do "prefer" can't show except through cherry-picked historical examples, any reason they should be lifted higher than others. Or that they're divine...
Change all conversations to focus on the similarities.
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- blattimwind 9y ago> I think the answer is partially in your quote: emphasis the similarities. > Change all conversations to focus on the similarities. > (GP) I think this is going to be the next big challenge in social tech: But so far social media is completely reliant on us-vs-them, in- vs out-group differentiation. It would seem that social media already changed dozens of societies across the globe to the worse in the matter of a just few years. At this point it would probably be a huge success if "social media" were able to heal the massive damage it has caused so far.
- weberc2 9y agoNot just social media either, but traditional media as well.