• Septimaeus@infosec.pub
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    1 day ago

    I appreciate the sentiment but prejudice is a fairly complex state of mind to propose as the atomic root of all society’s ills.

    Prejudice is always preceded by fear. What other reason is there to pre-judge that isn’t synonymous with fear?

    And similarly, fear of people is always preceded by lack of knowledge, a lack of confidence in one’s ability to predict behavior, aka trust.

    I only ask because solving prejudice is hard — ask 10 people how and you’ll have 10 different answers — whereas a problem like ignorance has only one solution.

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    2 days ago

    I dunno, greed seems to be winning out. Greed has even managed to weaponize prejudice to distract people from all the taking …

  • infinite_ass@leminal.space
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    2 days ago

    Prejudice is a socially acceptable way to express anger. It’s bad and irrational, yes.

    Is there a good way to express anger?