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⌈ Secret Post #2945 ⌋

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[Not a Harem Heaven, It's a Yandere Hell]

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[Game of Thrones]

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[In the Flesh]

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[Hudson Leick as Callisto in Xena, Warrior Princess]

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[Plebcomics]

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[Great British Bake Off]

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[Captain America: The First Avenger]

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[Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu LOVE!]

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[Queen]

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Part of the problem might be that we see those labelled as 'racist' and 'sexist' as also meaning: "Ultimate evil terrible person." But it's almost impossible to exist in society and not pick up some biases from the environment around you. Everyone has some level of 'ism' and a lot of people just don't examine their own thoughts.

Yes! Yes. Yessss. This sums up so perfectly why I get annoyed with people who think that sexists/racists/etc are uniformly bad and villainous people. The most insidious and dangerous prejudice, the sort that props up and perpetuates the system, is the sort that's implicit; the sort that's held by people who are otherwise good;; the sort that's held by almost all of us, because one can't help but internalize some amount of bias when one grows up in a prejudiced society. And when people frame bigots as being two-dimensional black hats, then not only do they wind up ignoring the bigotry in many of the people whom they personally like, but they also wind up ignoring their own bigotry, because they believe that they're good and that they must already have defeated their own prejudices.

If we don't want to be prejudiced, we have to constantly self-evaluate.

Thank you.

In fact (at risk of invoking Godwin's Law here), I think that's what a lot of Holocaust survivors often invoke - this idea that such mass cruelty against our fellow human beings is /preventable/, but only if we recognize that we are all capable of it, and it's not necessarily a cartoonish-moustache-twirling thing. It's very, very subtle - even in people we love and think are wonderful, even in ourselves.

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