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Post A Reply Login Name: Password: Message Icon:                                                                       Message: HTML is not enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Heather: [QB] A lot of people who are nice people otherwise have some kind of bias or bigotry, be it homophobia, racism, sexism, the works. It's everywhere, unfortunately, and shows itself up even in some people we'd expect better from. If you don't have to deal with this or any other kind of bias from only 1% of the people around you, that's amazingly great. Like, unheard of great. In that kind of amazing situation, what I'd say you can do is recognize how much support there is around you, how much there is a lack of that bias, and recognize that the people with it are the ones with the problem, and also are going to have very little power to impact anyone with that bias if there is truly that much support and lack of bias. Personally, I call out bias. I've always done it, but the older I get, the more I just won't stand for it, any kind that I see or hear. When people around me voice it, I let them know they are voicing bias or bigotry, and how disappointing it is for me to hear that from someone I would expect better of. If people around me are unwilling to recognize and question bias, I do all I can not to have those people around me, and if I need to or the situation is such, make clear that's why I don't want to be around them. [/QB][/QUOTE]

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