04-17-2020, 01:03 AM
(04-16-2020, 06:19 PM)Camz Wrote:(04-09-2020, 04:25 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(04-08-2020, 02:05 PM)Camz Wrote: a) The area I live in is VERY progressive, especially with schools pushing this (a few years ago I was shocked to learn racism was a big problem in other parts of the country, I can't even remember a time I've ever experienced it and both of my parents are South American immigrants)
You learned from your school, or you learned from experiencing it?
When school finally shoved progressivism down our throats (a 6th-grade event), I was actually super annoyed by it and hated it, because I was in that dumb anti-SJW Tumblr phase. At least then I was already aware that racism bad and gays are good and exist. My middle school social studies teachers were passionate about social justice, so I guess I learned from them and the internet mostly. I didn't need teachers telling us equal rights are good because I figured, but they did. I guess I learned from them because there was very little discrimination or anything from my experience.
Okay. Then what you actually learned was that your teachers wanted you to believe that racism was a big problem in other parts of the country, not that it necessarily actually was. It actually was a big problem in the 1960s and 1970s, but I don't think it is today, though I'd be open to contrary evidence.
And, "gays are good"? No more so than anyone else on average, but if the schools are teaching that being gay automatically makes a person good, that might explain a lot about current attitudes.