I mean, that is actually the most successful way of countering racism in real life. Not 100% successful, but better than just trying to talk someone out of racist views.
Comment on What's one cliche "Moral of the story" in media that you hate more than anything else?
DigDoug@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The moral of every Hollywood Racism Movie^TM ends up boiling down to “We could eliminate racism if only every racist met a person of [RACE] that they actually liked.”
snooggums@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
T156@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Or conversely, racism will be eliminated once the head racist is defeated.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Wasn’t there a disney channel original where they explained the segregation as people dancing and singing about it.
isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
They’re correct that this creates cognitive dissonance. The racist, upon meeting a minority member that doesn’t uphold the stereotype, has two contradictory facts in their head:
All members of a minority group are bad.
This member of that minority group isn’t bad.
This is cognitive dissonance. Both of these cannot be true at the same time. One of these premises must be wrong.
Hollywood imagines the bigot will treat this like a physicist disproving a theory by finding a counterexample. But bigotry is anyhing but scientific. You can’t reason your way out of a place reason did not lead you to. Instead, they adjust their premises to:
Most members of a minority group are bad.
This member of that minority group is one of the few good ones.
DigDoug@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Exactly.