StrypeyMar 3

Urrgh. Ok, I desperately need sleep, and I can't sleep until I get this off my chest. So here goes.

A couple of weeks back I posted a reply about what's effective in dealing with the problem of bigotry IMHO, based on nearly half a century of lived experience,;

https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/116038706291119626

I don't see myself as the font of all wisdom, and I have no issue with people disagreeing with me. Sometimes they even end up changing my mind (see my posts in the MeaCulpa hashtag).

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#bigotry #bullying

Strypey (@[email protected])

(1/2) @[email protected] > You don't stop bigots being bigots. You make being a bigot socially costly. You make palling around with bigots unpopular with people who might otherwise associate with bigots This is cynical, fatalistic, and incredibly antisocial. For a start, your core premise is wrong. People can and do stop being bigoted. I've seen this myself. Daryl Davis has proven it many times. There are many other examples. @[email protected] @[email protected]

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But what I got was dogpiled by a gang of self-righteous bullies. Parroting a bunch of thought-terminating clichés, and hurling bullshit accusations that had nothing to do with anything I actually said, or anything I've ever said, here or anywhere.

Life is too short to deal with that kind of networked idiocy. So I'm going to say this once, to anyone who thinks this is an acceptable way to carry on.

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Show threadStrypeyMar 3

What if it was someone you care about, who you knew as a perfectly lovely person before they started hanging out on that dodgy gaming forum, or wherever they picked up the bigotry brainworms? What if it was your best friend since school, your sibling, your parent, your *child*?

Maybe then you'd think twice about whether it's good advice to tar and feather other human beings as bigots, and deny them all social contact with anyone not also pegged as a bigot?

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@strypey Concerning actual bigots, those who deny the humanity and dignity of those different from them; i.e. not just those who don't believe in TWAW or whatever, how do you rehabilitate them?
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Show threadStrypeyMar 3

@light
> how do you rehabilitate them?

If this is something people are motivated to do (again it's not obligatory), I laid out some ideas here;

https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/116167711751856162

Oh and for the record, people who refuse to accept that TWAW ...

> deny the humanity and dignity of those different from them

Trans rights are human rights.

Strypey (@[email protected])

(2/?) @KarlHeinzHasliP > there is a big question of what you socially do with latently violent privileged bigots The radical solutions are to; a) avoid essentialising. Bigotry, like drug addiction, is a set of beliefs and behaviours, not a kind of person b) try to understand the many and varied reasons why a particular person might be manifesting bigotry in their behaviour. A small handful are irredeemable sociopaths. Most are vulnerable people with brainworms

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Show threadLightMar 4
@strypey
> Oh and for the record, people who refuse to accept that TWAW "deny the humanity and dignity of those different from them".
>Trans rights are human rights.
Respectfully disagree.
"You are not a woman" =/= "you are inferior".
No one has a "right" to force others to deny scientific reality and the evidence of their own eyes and ears.