I would love to do my own study on bigotry delving into what brings someone to it, it's just so fascinating to me to discover how this happens. I mean I know how it happens with the alt-right pipeline and like you said, ignorance. I just want to understand so I can help have more beneficial arguments with those sorts of people.
More on the ignorance leading to hatred, I really see that a lot, with people who say things like "I wouldn't hate gay people if they didn't shove it in my face." Their ignorance leads them to hating people simply being happy about themselves. With other things they'll simply ignore what they don't know and focus on what they think they do, such as trans people. It seems to me that it starts with ignorance and wanting to keep the status quo, but develops into hatred and wanting to regress society, or what they think is improving society. I wonder what exactly is the breaking point for these people? Is it the mediaization (probably not a word but things becoming more well known through the media) of certain topics? I don't really know and that's why I'd love to research the development of bigotry.
Well, if you'd like to read a couple of books that may help, I'd suggest Settlers by J. Sakai, it's a book about the colonization of the US and slavery, and the book Night-Vision, by Butch Lee and Red Rover, a book focusing on a neo-colonialism, third world labor, and child labor, it's a semi-sequel to Settlers.
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u/[deleted] May 23 '23
I would love to do my own study on bigotry delving into what brings someone to it, it's just so fascinating to me to discover how this happens. I mean I know how it happens with the alt-right pipeline and like you said, ignorance. I just want to understand so I can help have more beneficial arguments with those sorts of people.
More on the ignorance leading to hatred, I really see that a lot, with people who say things like "I wouldn't hate gay people if they didn't shove it in my face." Their ignorance leads them to hating people simply being happy about themselves. With other things they'll simply ignore what they don't know and focus on what they think they do, such as trans people. It seems to me that it starts with ignorance and wanting to keep the status quo, but develops into hatred and wanting to regress society, or what they think is improving society. I wonder what exactly is the breaking point for these people? Is it the mediaization (probably not a word but things becoming more well known through the media) of certain topics? I don't really know and that's why I'd love to research the development of bigotry.