Originally Posted by
Indie
I didn't get that earlier, that you meant the legal sense.
I thought you meant people were perceiving prejudice where it didn't exist -- but you meant that once laws change (i.e. eliminating segregation, making discriminatory hiring practices illegal, etc.), it's all about getting people to perceive each other more fairly? That's logical.
Putting that into practice is hard. How do you change huge cultural mindsets that have been ground into people for generations? For example, how do you get people to recognize that *****exuality isn't a sin when their religious texts tell them it is? How do you turn around cultural forces that make male-against-female sexual assault so common?
For some people, seeing examples of behaviour is enough to get them to change. For others, words are needed. That's all I'm trying to argue here.
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Totally agree there. never in Question. Maybe it seemed that way, but I was not trying to say otherwise. It's extremely difficult to get people to change perception. That's why there was so much debate between me and Fred. not that there wasn't a problem, but how to fix it.
To be honest, I think it all boils down to time. In my mind, we are not fighting to change the perception of our generation, but the perception of generations to come.