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How to be less racist/bigotred? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I am a part of the LGBTQ community and work in a big city in middle europe. A lot of my coworkers are religios and have a foreign background. They are mostly very nationalist and homo-/transphobic. I hate them for their blind hate and bigotry, which wont change. I have realised, that I have become a bit bigotred towards people like them in the last few months, which is, even tho my biases often revealed to be true, just unfair to them. How could I stop that?

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 10 months ago (17 children)

It sounds like you're describing the Paradox of Tolerance.

The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually ceased or destroyed by the intolerant. Karl Popper described it as the seemingly self-contradictory idea that in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must retain the right to be intolerant of intolerance.

I don't really have a good answer other than follow your heart, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (5 children)

OP is describing their own growing bias towards an ethnic group based on opinions they have encountered in a few of them. They want help with their own biases. This isn't really the kind of answer this post needs. It's becoming cliche.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I may have read it incorrectly but I didn't see anything about an ethnic group in OPs post. The only distinguishing factor they provided was "blind hate and bigotry". Which is not an ethnic group.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

a lot of my coworkers are religious and have a foreign background

I think this where the bias settles in that he wants to remove.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Ok, yeah I can see that reading it again. Probably my own biases causes me to ignore that part initially. Thanks for pointing it out.

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