#prejudice — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #prejudice, aggregated by home.social.
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The deep roots of racism. Cartoon from 2020.
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The deep roots of racism. Cartoon from 2020.
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The deep roots of racism. Cartoon from 2020.
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The deep roots of racism. Cartoon from 2020.
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The deep roots of racism. Cartoon from 2020.
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https://theconversation.com/swedens-prison-population-has-doubled-in-a-decade-and-is-set-to-spike-even-further-heres-why-285193. Evidence-based #policy making this is NOT. It is #prejudice & #ideology based policy making, & will prove utterly disastrous for #Sweden.
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https://theconversation.com/swedens-prison-population-has-doubled-in-a-decade-and-is-set-to-spike-even-further-heres-why-285193. Evidence-based #policy making this is NOT. It is #prejudice & #ideology based policy making, & will prove utterly disastrous for #Sweden.
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https://theconversation.com/swedens-prison-population-has-doubled-in-a-decade-and-is-set-to-spike-even-further-heres-why-285193. Evidence-based #policy making this is NOT. It is #prejudice & #ideology based policy making, & will prove utterly disastrous for #Sweden.
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https://theconversation.com/swedens-prison-population-has-doubled-in-a-decade-and-is-set-to-spike-even-further-heres-why-285193. Evidence-based #policy making this is NOT. It is #prejudice & #ideology based policy making, & will prove utterly disastrous for #Sweden.
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https://theconversation.com/swedens-prison-population-has-doubled-in-a-decade-and-is-set-to-spike-even-further-heres-why-285193. Evidence-based #policy making this is NOT. It is #prejudice & #ideology based policy making, & will prove utterly disastrous for #Sweden.
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https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/reform-uks-equalities-policy-swamped-in-confusion-after-bravermans-apparent-u-turn/. #ReformUK appears to have its head stuck up its arse on #equality. No surprise there. Where #ignorance meets #prejudice, that is bound to be the case. We #disabled people have every reason to fear a #Reform #Government, like we have a #Tory one.
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https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/reform-uks-equalities-policy-swamped-in-confusion-after-bravermans-apparent-u-turn/. #ReformUK appears to have its head stuck up its arse on #equality. No surprise there. Where #ignorance meets #prejudice, that is bound to be the case. We #disabled people have every reason to fear a #Reform #Government, like we have a #Tory one.
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https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/reform-uks-equalities-policy-swamped-in-confusion-after-bravermans-apparent-u-turn/. #ReformUK appears to have its head stuck up its arse on #equality. No surprise there. Where #ignorance meets #prejudice, that is bound to be the case. We #disabled people have every reason to fear a #Reform #Government, like we have a #Tory one.
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https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/reform-uks-equalities-policy-swamped-in-confusion-after-bravermans-apparent-u-turn/. #ReformUK appears to have its head stuck up its arse on #equality. No surprise there. Where #ignorance meets #prejudice, that is bound to be the case. We #disabled people have every reason to fear a #Reform #Government, like we have a #Tory one.
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https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/reform-uks-equalities-policy-swamped-in-confusion-after-bravermans-apparent-u-turn/. #ReformUK appears to have its head stuck up its arse on #equality. No surprise there. Where #ignorance meets #prejudice, that is bound to be the case. We #disabled people have every reason to fear a #Reform #Government, like we have a #Tory one.
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A quotation from Adlai Stevenson
Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice dies hard.
Adlai Stevenson II (1900–1965) American politician, diplomat, statesman
Speech (1963-10-01), “Statement on the Draft Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination,” Committee III, United Nations, New York CityMore about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-adlai-ewin…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #adlaistevenson #discrimination #ignorance #prejudice #racism
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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KmV8HSEf7jI?is=o9Acz0h8NsHyrOc5
#NancyMace #Hater #Constitution #USA #Politics #SouthCarolina #Republican #GOP #Religion #Law #Justice #Separation #Church #State #Ignorance #Violation #Treason #Traitor #Prejudice #Congress #USHouse #Representative #Confederate #Election #Vote #Activism #Remove #Committees #Speaker
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It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 1 “Economy” (1854)More about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #henrydavidthoreau #beliefsystem #bias #change #prejudice #reform #worldview #ideology
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The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor can it keep people persuaded once they have ceased to believe. It penetrates only into minds already open, and rather than instill opinion it articulates and justifies opinions already present in the minds of its recipients. The gifted propagandist brings to a boil ideas and passions already simmering in the minds of his hearers. he echoes their innermost feelings. Where opinion is not coerced, people can be made to believe only in what they already “know.”
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 83 (3.14.83) (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/11263/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #agitprop #belief #confirmation #confirmationbias #conviction #disinformation #fear #ideas #justification #opinion #passion #predisposition #prejudice #propaganda #reinforcement #truebeliever
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I think one must engage in politics — using the word in a wide sense — and that one must have preferences: that is, one must recognise that some causes are objectively better than others, even if they are advanced by equally bad means. As for the nationalistic loves and hatreds that I have spoken of, they are part of the make-up of most of us, whether we like it or not. Whether it is possible to get rid of them I do not know, but I do believe that it is possible to struggle against them, and that this is essentially a moral effort. It is a question first of all of discovering what one really is, what one’s own feelings really are, and then of making allowance for the inevitable bias.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46470/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #bias #cause #endsandmeans #ideology #jingoism #moralcharacter #moralduty #nationalism #objectivity #politicalopinion #politics #prejudice #selfawareness #selfexamination #selfimprovement #subjectivity
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Part of my thread that's coming later this week will also discuss how being treated like shit/being disbelieved here (after getting swatted by a pathological liar who owns a huge Canadian instance, with a lot of ignorant supporters who seem unaware or don't care that their guy swatted me) - severely triggered my PTSD on being disbelieved when I tried reporting being SAed as a teen. I was bullied & ostracized for trying to report SA. People believed the rapist & not me. It brought up the same angry, disappointed & people are fucked feelings.
I had almost left Mastodon completely, due to that.The Epstein Files triggered both of those hella horrible life memories, again. I'd never been swatted before Chad Ohman chose to send that racial violence to my home, shortly after my Dad died. That night was full of unnecessary police traumas too. I'm sick of people pretending to care & I find out they don't, when shit hits the fan.
I don't need fake support. I don't need cowardly folks. That shit ends up hurting me in the long run. I don't need any fucking devil's advocates either. Go hang out with Satan.
#POCVoices #AsianMastodon #FakeAssCivility #POCMastodon #WhitePrivilege #Racism #Prejudice #FuckStatusQuo #Trauma #PTSD #MstdnCA #DecolonizeYourMind #Swatting #RacialViolence #Bullying #Canadian #Misogyny #DevilsAdvocate
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Later this week.
I'll talk about my feelings about how most folks are socially conditioned to quickly judge loud, angry POC women but not conditioned to understand why a lot of us are done with being mistreated/disbelieved/treated lesser than because we don't stay calm/polite when we experience ongoing abuses & rarely are supported during our worst experiences. Most folks (fellow POC are included) are socially conditioned to refrain from judging the polite in public white person, who abuses their white privilege & stays calm, after being shady & abusive.All of this shitass, social programming is fucking ass backwards. It sets up a perpetual system of putting polite talking, calm, perpetrators, over not polite talking, not calm, victims.
#POCVoices #AsianMastodon #FakeAssCivility #POCMastodon #WhitePrivilege #Racism #Prejudice #FuckStatusQuo #DecolonizeYourMind
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Just scrolled through some physician-focused subreddit discussions of GLP-1 drugs (e.g., #Ozempic). If you want to see anti-science biases driven by subculture norms...
Science is very clear about the effectiveness of behavioral #weightLoss treatments: It's absolutely awful. So low nobody should invest in any of them. If those success rates were applied to other medical issues, we'd be almost as angry about weight loss programs as we are about "pray the gay away" camps (not quite that angry... but close). There's also (IIRC) at least a little research on the standard MD "intervention" of just telling patients they need to eat less and exercise more (spoiler: even less effective than Weight Watchers).
The only treatments for being overweight with more than inconsistent and minimal success are surgery and drugs. That's it.
Now look at what MDs say to each other. They discuss how "unethical" it is to prescribe GLP-1 drugs for people who haven't shown behavioral evidence of "commitment" or "seriousness" about weight loss by following a strict diet/exercise regimen for a specific time period (usually a year or more, from what I've seen). So much patting each other on the back about the highly responsible action of refusing GLP-1 meds to people who either aren't overweight enough (i.e., they experience many health and other consequences, but the MD has a BMI line in their head the patient hasn't crossed, yet) or haven't done enough exercise or diet to convince the specific MD that they deserve the medications.
Please think about how ridiculous this is: thousands (or millions?) of medical professionals refusing to give tens or hundreds of millions of people a treatment that works until those people grind away at a treatment that doesn't work for a certain amount of time.
In case someone is going to show up and tell me "it's calories in/calories out!" Yes, of course it is. If it's so simple, why are literally billions of people struggling with that equation every day? You might as well tell people suffering from depression "it's just getting regular exercise, social interaction, and satisfying experiences every day" or someone with ADHD "It's just a matter of focusing more." Medical doctors might as well refuse to provide statins etc. to people with high blood pressure unless they show evidence of strict diet and exercise adherence for a year, first. Actually, that's not far from what they are saying with GLP-1s, and of course there are even some MDs who refuse to provide treatment for depression or ADHD until the people with those conditions "prove" they can beat the condition without any treatment.
The behavior is the problem: motivation is in your brain, which gets hijacked by fat cells and, basically, a million years of evolution. Sure, if you ignore behavior it's easy to solve behavioral issues. Everyone seems to recognize this until the behavioral issue gets too close to some programming from their childhood that touches issues of morality, responsibility, deservingness, goodness, etc. Then the science and rationality go out the window, except as a thin fig leaf for personal biases.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 260 (1955)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/19134/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #agitprop #belief #bias #confirmationbias #disinformation #prejudice #propaganda #selfdeception #selfjustification
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
Where the environment is stupid or prejudiced or cruel, it is a sign of merit to be out of harmony with it.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 9 “Fear of Public Opinion” (1930)More info about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/792…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #BertrandRussell #autonomy #bullying #cruelty #discrimination #folly #foolishness #heterodoxy #independence #individualism #judgment #nastiness #nationalism #prejudice #racism #sexism #stupidity #merit #virtue
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#Proposition6, also known as #TheBriggsInitiative, was introduced in 1978 by #conservative #California #statesenator #JohnBriggs. This #initiative aimed to #ban #gays and #lesbians, and possibly their #supporters, from #working in California's #publicschools.
The measure was rooted in the #fear and #prejudice that #gay #teachers would negatively #influence #children and #promote the "#homosexuallifestyle."
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#GenderGP #responds to the the #CassReview
“Through its #cisheteronormative #agenda, the Cass Review is enacting the #prejudice that #trans #people suffer in the #UnitedKingdom”
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #TransKids #Adults #Transitioning #Healthcare #Tories #TERFS #NHS #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #TERFIsland
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#BigBrother #housemate #Olivia #voices #concern that #Hallie’s #eviction was due to #transphobia.
The #Scottish #dancer referenced that “#prejudice” in the #public #vote could have led to the 18-year-old’s #exit from the #house.
Having been #nominated by her #housemates for #eviction, it was the #publicvote which sent her home.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Entertainment #TV #Hate #Bigotry #Transphobia
https://diva-magazine.com/2023/10/30/big-brother-hallie-eviction/
