Great job in uncovering unconscious bias in hating bigots/bigotry. Very thought provoking. I do think bigotry is learned, not inherent in our natures, but that is a minor point and definitely just my own opinion :) I am very curious what you have in mind with “ We decry “the system,” our secular Satan, while curling our lips at society’s offspring. ”
Only by inverting our prejudice by superficially sublimating it and distancing ourselves from its muck can we continue to convince ourselves of our saintliness. Like Christians viscerally repulsed by homosexuality, we reconceptualize our nausea, stuff it into an intellectual box marked “moral sensitivity” so that we don’t have to face the shadows within.”
This is my favorite group of sentences! I think it’s written especially well!
Great job in uncovering unconscious bias in hating bigots/bigotry. Very thought provoking. I do think bigotry is learned, not inherent in our natures, but that is a minor point and definitely just my own opinion :) I am very curious what you have in mind with “ We decry “the system,” our secular Satan, while curling our lips at society’s offspring. ”
Only by inverting our prejudice by superficially sublimating it and distancing ourselves from its muck can we continue to convince ourselves of our saintliness. Like Christians viscerally repulsed by homosexuality, we reconceptualize our nausea, stuff it into an intellectual box marked “moral sensitivity” so that we don’t have to face the shadows within.”
This is my favorite group of sentences! I think it’s written especially well!