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How to be less racist/bigotred? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by bi_tux to c/[email protected]

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So I am a part of the LGBTQ community and work in a big city in middle europe. A lot of my coworkers are religios and have a foreign background. They are mostly very nationalist and homo-/transphobic. I hate them for their blind hate and bigotry, which wont change. I have realised, that I have become a bit bigotred towards people like them in the last few months, which is, even tho my biases often revealed to be true, just unfair to them. How could I stop that?

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[–] severien 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it's just an emergent phenomenon given their experience with the people around them

It's usually caused by lack of experience with such people and a heap of prejudice and religion.

By claiming it's not their choice sounds like you're claiming they are not responsible for their behavior which is IMHO pretty dangerous.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you believe you would behave any differently if you were working from the same information they are? If no, then we agree. If yes, then you believe you are somehow inherently superior to them. I think that is pretty dangerous.

[–] severien 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do you believe you would behave any differently if you were working from the same information they are?

Yes. I was raised as a Christian and was fed not that dissimilar bullsh*t from an early age. At that point access to information was way, way worse (no internet, small village...) than now, yet it wasn't that crazy difficult to realize what crap it was. IMNSHO there's no excuse today.