#prejudice — Public Fediverse posts

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.

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.

A quotation from Eric Hoffer

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/

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Sage. (AI Generated Image) #sage #sageadvice #wise #wiseadvice #saying #oldsaying #bigotry #endbigotry #homophobia #endhomophobia #racism #endracism #sexism #endsexism #evil #xenophobia #hatred #humanity #problems #prejudice #obstinate #unreasonable #humansuffering #pride #whitefragility #malefragility #straightmalefragility

Judge Paul A. Magnuson #dismissed the charges on Friday with #prejudice, meaning the case cannot be refiled.

#ToddLyons, the acting director of #ICE, said in a statement Friday that 2 officers seemed to have provided “inaccurate testimony” [straight up #perjury].

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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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