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Thread #130571   Message #2939504
Posted By: GUEST,Shimrod
04-Jul-10 - 05:53 AM
Thread Name: BS: The last great prejudice?
Subject: RE: BS: The last great prejudice?
I suppose that it all depends on where you live. I've read that there are deep pockets of prejudice (of all kinds) in the American Mid-West - although never having been there, I've no way of knowing how true that is. Nevertheless, here, in vibrant, multi-cultural, urban Britain, anti-gay prejudice undoubtedly exists - but it appears to be confined to certain sub-sections of society.

In the road in which I live there are two gay couples and I have never heard a word of prejudice directed against them (you would, of course, have to ask them if they had actually experienced any prejudice). In the circles in which I move, to express any anti-gay sentiments would be social death! People would be queuing up to express their dis-pleasure.

Prejudice against minorities seems to be, unfortunately, a fact of life. But it appears to become a major, toxic problem when a particular state enshrines it into law (eg anti-semitism in Nazi Germany).

From my perspective prejudice against gay people is a relatively minor problem compared with the 'biggies' like: income inequalities, war and environmental degradation.