bucky5000
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like i said, it grows like the salt crystals we used to make back in grade 1 science. what is just a joke now builds a basis for desensitization to stereotypes and discriminating behaviour, creating unconscious negative attitudes, which, when left unchecked, are the root cause of all the violence in the world today. as a different, but very similar example, take an ad for clothing or perfume depicting a naked, dead looking woman. many may say oh it's just an ad, it doesn;t MEAN anything, but it does. it signifies that its ok to objectify the death of women, which puts that seed into the inconscious that women are inferior. this is the same as laughing at discriminatory jokes, signifying that it is ok to discriminate against these people, becuase they are somehow inferior. im not saying that people think this way, that by laughing, they actually think "öh, i can laugh, this person isn't important", its subconscious. and society has a collective unconscious which allows discrimination and hate to exist, despite what we might do or say on a conscious level.
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