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>I’m saying this as a father who needs to be able to answer his black daughter when she asks: “What did you do?” Wow. I think this deserves highlighting. It's

>I’m saying this as a father who needs to be able to answer his black daughter when she asks: “What did you do?” Wow. I think this deserves highlighting. It's powerful and beautiful.

kaitai 6y ago
Yes.
ceejayoz 6y ago
It's also indicative of one aspect the problem, where we largely don't care until we have a personal stake in things. For another example: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-21804506 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-21804506 > Influential US Republican Senator Rob Portman has renounced his opposition to gay marriage. The Ohio senator said he began to change his mind in 2011 after his son, Will, revealed he was gay. It's great that people change. It's not great that it frequently takes a direct familial relationship to cause it.
- kingkawn 6y ago
  We are human, experience is how we learn. Rather than moralize against it because there is an ideal human you’d prefer recognize that there is a clear and known path to helping people humanize their worldview through exposure.
- ripsawridge 6y ago
  Our aspirations might be vaunting past what humans are generally capable of. I completely agree with you, but since I see over and over (and over) that only direct relationships engender change, I finally conclude that this is where humanity is at. We can call it a bug if we like, but it doesn't mean we can change it. It only looks like a bug now because we are insisting on building complex, globalized societal configurations which don't play well with that limitation.
  - beamatronic 6y ago
    Doesn't globalizing promote the creation of more direct relationships, with a broad diversity of people? Giving one a spectrum of ideas and experiences - thereby engendering change?
- staycoolboy 6y ago
  > It's not great that it frequently takes a direct familial relationship to cause it. I believe it is called the Empathy Gap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy_gap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy_gap Remember how the conservative establish was anti-marijuana, and before that anti-gay (well, still some are), and before that anti-mixed-race-marriage, and before that anti-long hair?

>I’m saying this as a father who needs to be able to answer his black daughter when she asks: “What did you do?” Wow. I think this deserves highlighting. It's powerful and beautiful.

kaitai 6y ago

Yes.

ceejayoz 6y ago

It's also indicative of one aspect the problem, where we largely don't care until we have a personal stake in things. For another example: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-21804506 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-21804506 > Influential US Republican Senator Rob Portman has renounced his opposition to gay marriage. The Ohio senator said he began to change his mind in 2011 after his son, Will, revealed he was gay. It's great that people change. It's not great that it frequently takes a direct familial relationship to cause it.

kingkawn 6y ago
We are human, experience is how we learn. Rather than moralize against it because there is an ideal human you’d prefer recognize that there is a clear and known path to helping people humanize their worldview through exposure.
ripsawridge 6y ago
Our aspirations might be vaunting past what humans are generally capable of. I completely agree with you, but since I see over and over (and over) that only direct relationships engender change, I finally conclude that this is where humanity is at. We can call it a bug if we like, but it doesn't mean we can change it. It only looks like a bug now because we are insisting on building complex, globalized societal configurations which don't play well with that limitation.
- beamatronic 6y ago
  Doesn't globalizing promote the creation of more direct relationships, with a broad diversity of people? Giving one a spectrum of ideas and experiences - thereby engendering change?
staycoolboy 6y ago
> It's not great that it frequently takes a direct familial relationship to cause it. I believe it is called the Empathy Gap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy_gap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy_gap Remember how the conservative establish was anti-marijuana, and before that anti-gay (well, still some are), and before that anti-mixed-race-marriage, and before that anti-long hair?