Dutch_labrat
Junior Member
- Joined
- Apr 11, 2007
- Messages
- 65
- Location
- Leiden, The Netherlands
- Basic Beliefs
- Atheist, humanist, liberal
I think everybody is racist, and sexist, ableist and quite a few more-ists. To function in the modern urban interconnected world you need some methods to classify all the people you meet and our cultures and traditions are full of such modes of thought.
I think your level of racism though depends on three levels:
1. Your awareness of your prejudice
2. Your interest in avoiding your racism
3. Your interest in harming other with your racism
What is so sad is that a lot of people in current western societies are working on 2 and 3 and forgetting about 1. The first is the hard one, it forces you to address the cognitive dissonance of having modes of thought you know and believe to be wrong.
I think your level of racism though depends on three levels:
1. Your awareness of your prejudice
2. Your interest in avoiding your racism
3. Your interest in harming other with your racism
What is so sad is that a lot of people in current western societies are working on 2 and 3 and forgetting about 1. The first is the hard one, it forces you to address the cognitive dissonance of having modes of thought you know and believe to be wrong.