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Originally Posted by ryan8472
Well we can keep doing nothing, which in turn solves nothing, or parents can start teaching their children how to act. Then again, we don't like to tell parents how to raise their kids. Maybe we should?  We can't beat the kids, because they'll keep doing the same to their kids. We can't just remind them not to do something, because children these days have attention spans of a goldfish because of the "learning disabilities" they are told they have. And we certainly can't discuss homosexuality and diversity in health class, because the parents will **** bricks. So therefore, I guess we just need to place computer chips in children's brains.  |
Whoa, I've never seen you say anything this serious. You're hella right, though.
I have no real insightful thing to say about this, children and parents piss me off. No, I'm not talking about anyone here. Just in general.
I have found from observation of a couple of my awesome friends, that the thing that changes people's minds the most about something is when someone approaches them in a very kind and loving and non judgmental way about it. I have a couple friends who can change people's minds and outlooks just by talking to them. Unfortunately, not everyone has this gift. I mean, people already like these friends because of their kind and loving and accepting and nonjudgmental manners, so that when they speak, the other person already puts faith and value in their opinion. But these friends of mine are very nonconfrontational in their approach to everything. And very few people are like that when they disagree about something.
I guess put in simpler terms, it's changing people's minds by example. Like, this person is very cool and I like her/him, so I am taking what he/she says into serious consideration, because if they think that, and I like them, then their opinion is more valid.
*As a weird note, none of these things ever came up in my school while I was growing up. We just learned all the PC, or "right" things to think about other races at least. But that is because it was basically all white upper middle class people, so we never had any actual confrontations, or differences of culture. There was a sprinkle of PWT, and a sprinkle of olive skin (me, and a couple other girls, and this one guy), but....
also, I never heard about gay people at all. Either positively or negatively. Even in highschool, among the choir/drama boys, it never really came up. I guess there was this one drama guy who was really, really gay, but no one ever said that, and I never saw anyone judging him about it. He was a little lame, so sometimes people said that, but that's all. And hella people were lame, so it wasn't unusual. And of course I guess some of the choir boys turned out to be gay, and I guess we spotted it, but no one said anything or treated them differently. No one talked about them and said they were gay. Also, most of those guys I can think of were really nice, all the girls loved them.
I guess it could have been more brutal in jockworld, but I didn't live there, I just played and was good at sports. And there was lots of crossover, like me. Jocks who were in choir or drama, etc. We just called the ones who were only jocks and hella dumb "lamos".
My point is that I think I have kind of a utopian ideal view of how things should be, or how they are, or what is really right and true. It all seems so obvious to me, I guess because I hadn't seen any conflict around these things growing up, and of course my parents and the school taught me the proper liberal view. I'm sure there would have been conflict, given that a large pop of my schools were mormon, and christian...but it never came up, so we all just learned (in school) the "right" things. And of course, no one is more polite than mormon and christian white kids, so even if they were taught differently at home, we never saw it in school.
Weird.