And I have attempted to outline why I think (regrettably) it's not that easy.
Usually things that are worthwhile aren't "easy".
And I have attempted to outline why I think (regrettably) it's not that easy.
Because i'm being sassy?a) why use a gender specifying turn of phrase at all if you are unsure about your counterparts gender, when the sentence is perfectly clear without it?
I'm very progressive in the fact that I don't do that for any poster. I don't know what gender you are, for example.b) you could look at at her profile page where she is identified as female
Ok. Good talk.Usually things that are worthwhile aren't "easy".
That's nice. But that's not what I am talking about. I went to many schools since I moved around a lot, and yeah, kids don't tend to care about race. But they will later get indoctrinated. People always get more ignorant the more their "pattern forms".
People just aren't mature enough to handle things with an objective hand.
You cannot tell me that if we swapped out every person in power now with minorities we wouldn't have the same issues, just in reverse.
Am I generalizing about "people" though? Look at America and our recent presidents. People don't exercise objectivity. Bush got in because his voterbase thought he was "relatable", and Obama got in because black people voted because he was black like a one issue Catholic votes votes for the guy against abortion.It goes the other way too, as I can attest from personal experience. I was certainly not raised to be racist, but in my childhood, I rarely interacted with nonwhite people, and when I first started going to schools with them, I saw them as something unfamiliar and separate. But I learned to broaden my horizons through interaction, and by high school, I reached the point where it just didn't matter to me anymore, just as it did for the other students who'd come into that environment from less integrated ones. And it wasn't just then; I've gone through similar broadenings of acceptance at other times in my life, like with gay people and religious people. Multiple times in my life, I've outgrown prejudices I didn't even know I had through the simple expedient of getting to know people who were different from me and listening to their points of view.
I think I've heard David Mack tell a similar story about his adult experience of moving to New York from a more monolithic community and learning from experience to become more accepting. It's not that uncommon, and it's more than possible for adults to do, if they're just willing to let in new people and new ideas.
Generalizations about "people" are nonsense. "People" includes everyone from Gandhi to Hitler. People are as incredibly diverse in psychology as they are in every other way.
This is the fundamental message of Star Trek: Human beings have the potential within ourselves for both great good and great evil, and so we can choose to bring ourselves closer to the former if we're willing to do the work. Cynical whining that improving human nature is hopeless is just a lazy excuse not to bother trying.
I'm not telling you that. I'm telling you that if we take the time now to build a social order where everyone is equal, then by the time that demographic shift happens a few decades from now, it will no longer matter. Building a better world takes work. It takes courage and commitment and bloody damn hard work, which is why we have to keep fighting the good fight relentlessly for as long as it takes.
(I can't edit posts yet so i'm just posting again).It goes the other way too, as I can attest from personal experience. I was certainly not raised to be racist, but in my childhood, I rarely interacted with nonwhite people, and when I first started going to schools with them, I saw them as something unfamiliar and separate. But I learned to broaden my horizons through interaction, and by high school, I reached the point where it just didn't matter to me anymore, just as it did for the other students who'd come into that environment from less integrated ones. And it wasn't just then; I've gone through similar broadenings of acceptance at other times in my life, like with gay people and religious people. Multiple times in my life, I've outgrown prejudices I didn't even know I had through the simple expedient of getting to know people who were different from me and listening to their points of view.
I think I've heard David Mack tell a similar story about his adult experience of moving to New York from a more monolithic community and learning from experience to become more accepting. It's not that uncommon, and it's more than possible for adults to do, if they're just willing to let in new people and new ideas.
Generalizations about "people" are nonsense. "People" includes everyone from Gandhi to Hitler. People are as incredibly diverse in psychology as they are in every other way.
This is the fundamental message of Star Trek: Human beings have the potential within ourselves for both great good and great evil, and so we can choose to bring ourselves closer to the former if we're willing to do the work. Cynical whining that improving human nature is hopeless is just a lazy excuse not to bother trying.
I'm not telling you that. I'm telling you that if we take the time now to build a social order where everyone is equal, then by the time that demographic shift happens a few decades from now, it will no longer matter. Building a better world takes work. It takes courage and commitment and bloody damn hard work, which is why we have to keep fighting the good fight relentlessly for as long as it takes.
One simple question. How do you distinguish process from regression? I'm not talking about a racial issue (all human beings are fundamentally equal, regardless of race, social class or sex, we all have the same rights and deserve to be judged equally), but about lack of responsibility, respect, and integrity as an individual of a part of modern generations, driven by materialism and narcissism. I mean, there have been stages throughout our history that were contextualized as regressive although one can argue that such a recession derived in later progress (the "Dark Ages", apart from being an incomplete term more practically associated with that related to the artistic).You don't stop progress. You don't apologize for progress.
This too is a big part of what I think about this stuff. Subjective good being mistaken for objective progress.One simple question. How do you distinguish process from regression? I'm not talking about a racial issue (all human beings are fundamentally equal, regardless of race, social class or sex, we all have the same rights and deserve to be judged equally), but about lack of responsibility, respect, and integrity as an individual of a part of modern generations, driven by materialism and narcissism. I mean, there have been stages throughout our history that were contextualized as regressive although one can argue that such a recession derived in later progress (the "Dark Ages", apart from being an incomplete term more practically associated with that related to the artistic).
Back to the topic, I think it all falls into a business issue. We live in times when the commercial takes over the artistic, outside of some communication possibilities
A white man of "Anglo-Saxon" ancestry is more commonly associated as a figure of greater potential success (sometimes I hate using this term, many latin americans employ it with a tone of resentment). It's all a matter of sales ...
Multiple times in my life, I've outgrown prejudices I didn't even know I had through the simple expedient of getting to know people who were different from me and listening to their points of view.
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This is good. Folks on the left need to learn this and stop jumping to (usually the wrong) conclusions all the time.
Generalizations about "people" are nonsense.
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Also true.
This is good. Folks on the left need to learn this and stop jumping to (usually the wrong) conclusions all the time.
You mean we are stuck with that round wheel invention!!!!!Some folks are always resentful of change. They either learn to live with it, or get left behind. You don't stop progress. You don't apologize for progress.
NBC pushed for a more inclusive cast, because demographic studies had shown that minority audiences had a lot of spending power that networks ignored at their peril. The odd thing is that networks forgot that lesson for a while in subsequent decades and have only recently relearned it.
What do you mean, you have a theory?I have a theory that some (Caucasian) folks fear diversity and equality cos they fear one day they will be treated as 'the other'.
As Chris Rock said in one of his acts 'not even the poorest white man wants to be me, and I'm rich!'
I literally described that scenario in one of my previous posts, positing that if, theoretically, we switched everyone in power with a minority, the same issues of preferential hiring etc would be there, just in reverse.
I guess what I am getting at is a certain attitude I see that "change they we are are looking at it is good, if you disagree you're bad".And that attitude is the problem -- that relentless focus on "What about my needs?" as opposed to "What about everyone's needs?" It's only when we realize that a rising tide lifts all boats, that equality benefits everyone because no one group can be assured of staying privileged forever, that we can really build a fair society.
We're not at war with each other. We're not competing for a finite, fixed amount of power or wealth or opportunity. The more inclusive society is, the more opportunity everyone has to contribute to it, the more power, wealth, and opportunity they can then create for everyone's benefit. Ensuring the equal rights of people different from yourself benefits yourself as well as them, because we're all better off the more friends and allies we have.
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