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Bigotry is not a reasonable attitude, and you can't reason someone out of an attitude they didn't reason themselves into in the first place.

• abiox 9y ago
  > Bigotry is not a reasonable attitude, and you can't reason someone out of an attitude they didn't reason themselves into in the first place. you don't need to convince every single person. that's unrealistic for basically any position. it also seems to me that 'bigot' is on the road to becoming a thought-terminating cliche (if it isn't that already). it's seems like a label some slap on others they disagree with so that they can 'free themselves' of understanding the mechanics of the other position; even as doing so provides the tools to better counteract it. some people do (poorly) 'reason' themselves into bad ideas, even 'the good guys'. often it's because of bad or incomplete data, incorrect assumptions, or one of the increasingly well known logical fallacies we see on a site like yourlogicalfallacyis.com.