That's pretty much what MLK's famous words about the "white moderate" were about, so yes. Most people will prefer an unjust order over the chaos necessary to br

That's pretty much what MLK's famous words about the "white moderate" were about, so yes. Most people will prefer an unjust order over the chaos necessary to bring justice as long as the injustice doesn't personally affect them too much. You call it reality, I call it the systems that define our society. Factual claims only serve to justify those systems. Someone who believes that homosexuality is inherently sinful and sinful behavior stains the character and thus leads to other sinful behaviors, will not become a gay rights activist if you can find a study to debunk their factual claims about how homosexuality is detrimental in this or that scenario. In other words, I think what you call "perception of reality" is really just another way to say a word that has long fallen out of use in polite conversation because the end of history was supposed to have overcome it: ideology.