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[–]LyingSpirit472 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I agree with that, but that's the endgame oppressed groups should HOPE happens.

People giving up and saying "fine, I'm a bigot. Whatever." and going about their day is the positive end to this with people realizing it's over- the worst thing that could happen to them is done and there's nowhere to go from it. Unfortunately, we're seeing as many people do the WORST possible ending for those oppressed groups- the people who respond "so that's it? I'm evil no matter what I do? Fine. Then let me be evil.", and deciding to go all in on bigotry- and now we have the literal Nazi POS'es, literal white supremacists, literal people committing atrocities against minority groups- and it seems to be a bunch of people who were called monsters for so long they're beginning to smash villages like a monster.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think that you’re right that that’s a risk, but I also think that in general people are good and won’t just resort to evil because they’re fed up or feel licensed to by the dilution of the term bigot/racist.

[–]LyingSpirit472 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I agree with you that by and large, people are good...however, the fact that we're seeing a rise in legit KKK members/Nazis/generally not good people in recent years makes it seem like too many people ARE resorting to evil.

What's worse for this, as there are these people resorting to evil, the dilution of the term bigot/racist is leading to a "Person Who Cried Wolf" scenario as the Nazis are getting more and more power in the world, marginalized groups have every right complaining and telling people about this, and the actual Nazi "we are openly trying to hurt and kill you and everyone you care about" is being hidden with "this person dared defy me and wouldn't let me have my way" so much good people just respond "aww, poor baby...was the big mean man mean to you because they're mean? There, there..." and blow the whiny bastards off.