Dec 18 2008
Dare to Interupt…
People (who are not bigots themselves) let bigoted comments and behaviors go by without comment. For myself- being black, female, disabled, and queer- I see it several times a week, at least. I can understand why people don’t want to interrupt socially biased behavior, even if they find it distasteful. We are trained not to make social waves. We fear consequences.
However- if we don’t interrupt such behaviors, be they racist, sexist, homophobic, ableist (fear of disabled people), the result of religious bias, or xenophobic (feat of foreigners or foreign things)- we won’t be doing our part to build the society we want and desire go ourselves and future generations. Do you really want to live with the results of that decision? I know I don’t.
