Mon, 30 August 2010
This episode lets me get a few things off my mind. The way Democrats divide liberals, and how all you have learned is just your bias telling you it's true!OMG are we in The Matrix?? The low-down: - AZ primaries come and go... and no one really cares. - Some feedback from my friends on Twitter! - Yes, some Mosque-talk again. - A letter from the First President of the United States - Music: Jody Gnant "Song In D" - Democrats and Liberals, and what separates them - Black Agenda Report: Obama and Liberals - Political Parties keep us from thinking for ourselves. - Confirmation Bias: What the hell is it? - Think for yourself! - Music: Black Lab "Gone"
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- I don't know if this counts as 'Confirmation Bias' or not but I want to share something that has changed in my mind over the past year or so.
I made an internet friendship with a transgendered woman who put it (being transgendered) into terms I could sort of understand. She went on to suggest a book "Whipping Girl" by Julia Serano. Oh boy did reading that book make me rethink my biases.
Anyhow, to keep the story short, after reading the book and spending some time rethinking my prejudices I realized I was wrong. I wasn't just wrong about the transgendered community but about a lot of my long standing prejudices.
Since trading multiple emails with my friend and reading the book she recommended I have realized that if it (fill in the blank with whatever 'it' you like) does not have a direct and negative impact on me then I won't stand in its way or bash those who are in favor of it.
Proposition 8 in California is an example. When it passed I thought to myself that was good. When it was challenged in court I thought the people challenging it deserve to lose their fight because there is just something basically wrong with gay marriage. My opinion now it that I hope it will go all the way to the Supreme Court and the gays prevail. If you would have told me a year ago that I would eventually feel this way about it I would have told you that you are crazy. But here I am today telling you (and the rest of the world) that I hope SCOTUS will make gay marriage the law of the land. Go figure...
