• slackassassin
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    2 years ago

    What cheapens the issues of prejudice is actively participating in it, thus normalizing it.

    Justifying the resentment of an entire group based on the actions of some isn’t bringing them down a peg. It’s just just perpetuating negatively, at best.

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      2 years ago

      Nah, knockin us for going on about “Murica #1” isn’t on the same level as the actual prejudice against the Roma for example.

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        2 years ago

        Didn’t say it was, dosen’t make it right. Weird thing to support, though, tbh.

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          2 years ago

          You kinda did though. At least that’s the stance anyone reading your previous comment is going to infer.

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            2 years ago

            No, I said supporting prejudicial views normalizes it and thus exacerbates it. I didn’t say all prejudices were equal. But, continue to support it if you want. Maybe I will too, seems healthy.

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              2 years ago

              See you are kinda doing it again. I was explaining why Americans are the focus of frustration but you want to be reductive about it and just make it all flat prejudice. That frame work puts it on equal footing with actual serious prejudices.