Reply #16: I don't do hateful things to people

[MedleyMisty]

And I'm not disagreeing with you about Morris Dees - I don't know anything about him beyond a quick look at the wikipedia page, which seemed to support your view. And based on your posts that I've read before, I know that your opinions are generally considered and thoughtful and based in reality. So I have no reason to argue with your opinion of him.

Believe me, I'm not as smug and prejudiced myself as I think I sound in this post as I read over it - I've had some bad experiences lately with sharing my political/social views and I think I'm trying to word things in a way that's not natural to me so as to try to avoid that. Anyway....

Understanding prejudice is one of my passions - I've researched it as much as someone who only has access to the freely available to everyone parts of the internet (I can't tell you how many times I've clicked on an interesting search result to only see that I have to pay or be a member of some organization to read it), corporate bookstores, and the local libraries can research anything.

I know that some people think that social equality is the cure for prejudice, but I've never quite understood how you go about getting social equality from prejudiced people. I mean, I can see how there would probably be a lot less prejudice in an equal society since it seems like a fair bit of prejudice is based on economic exploitation and perceptions of economic competition. But okay - like my mother used to work in a sock mill before and a bit after NAFTA. Her fellow workers were prejudiced against people from Mexico because immigrants were working in the mill and also later on the company closed the mill and moved operations to Mexico.

How do you get large numbers of people to put the blame on the corporations and capitalism and the whole free market thing and all of that and to see their fellow workers as humans just like them? Especially when many of them see talking about that as offending their social identity and preferring the target of their frustation to them and wanting them to not have jobs?

How do you overthrow the capitalist system and replace it with an equal non-exploitative one that doesn't encourage bigotry?