On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Biju Chacko <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > I used to think I was non-racist too, once. Now I'm just depressed by > how many of my prejudices keep crawling out and surprising me. You'd > think a guy who's lived his entire life in a multi-cultural milieu > wouldn't keep pigeon-holing people based on how they look or what > language they speak. > > Nowadays I think of myself as a bigot keeping a tight rein on his > prejudices. I figure if I can keep my bigotry from actually > influencing they way I deal with people, that's about as good as it > gets. > > I find that the older I get the harder it is to maintain all my > illusions about myself. Which is too bad, because my illusory self is > waaaaay cooler. He doesn't have a bald spot, to begin with. > > -- b > > I prefer to think that if one is not acting on assumptions, and one is willing to consider the evidence (not the kind that lives in your head), then it's not bigotry. Stereotypes exist as a useful shorthand etc etc, but as long as we're living in real life, and taking to account what we see, rather than what we want to see, we're probably doing all right. I wonder what my illusory self looks like. HMMM Chew Lin
