GirlChat #604916

Start A New Topic!  Submit SRF  Thread Index  Date Index  

Re: Coming Out vs. the Toybox

Posted by Dante on Friday, October 31 2014 at 07:17:58AM
In reply to Re: Coming Out vs. the Toybox posted by EthanEdwards on Thursday, October 30 2014 at 11:14:37PM

"But it sounds like a start, to know one good pedophile, where before you didn't know any. What's the alternative?"

Not being taught discriminatory beliefs in the first place. Not being told that Pedos have "selfish motives."

The "good Jew" cannot alone disprove his mythical counterpart. It takes a loooot more exposure to Jews of all kinds before the myth can be undone.

But in those not taught the myth at all, they can hypothesize that Jew are just as human as any other even when they don't know a single one.

And if they encounter the myth much much later, they might still dismiss it if they have seen through the same BS in another guise and nobody is claiming exceptions.

I have met enough Blacks, Jews, Hispanics, Lesbians, Handicapped, &tc that I don't need to have met any Albanians to dismiss an "Albanians are inherently disposed to behave negatively enough that we can suspect them before we meet them" claim.

This, of course is also why the self-loathing can be so damaging.

He gets more traction in the discriminatory press specifically because he does say, "You are right to distrust the criminal tendencies of my racial companions, but please don't blame me because I'm the exception to your true belief."

Maybe he really is sincere about wanting to protect the "few decent" people among his otherwise "blameworthy" race, but when the takeaway from the story is "They're bad just like we told you, they admit it themselves," then it undoes many many out good folks.

Focussing on eliminating the bad agents within any community can only start when we eliminate the notion that "bad" is a property of the community. Placing yourself on a spectrum that begins with your community and ends with "morally depraved" just shows the bigots the necessary link they were looking for.

The alternative to the discriminatory lie is not promoting the discriminatory lie in the fist place and denouncing it when it is being presented. And declaring the fight against the lie to be a political non-starter is foolish.

Dante

Dante





Follow ups:

Post a response :

Nickname Password
E-mail (optional)
Subject







Link URL (optional)
Link Title (optional)

Add your sigpic?