(March 20, 2022 at 12:11 am)JairCrawford Wrote: You don’t think we can use our post-enlightenment education to, well, educate people on this?
I think that presenting equal rights as an educational lesson doesn't get very far.
Like just about everything else, people accept it when it appears as propaganda in pop culture. If it's presented to them as good and cool on TV and in music videos, then it's good and cool. And here is a case where it's propagandizing something good.
I'm old enough to have seen a hell of a lot of progress in my lifetime. Racial integration, mixed-race relationships, Morgan Freeman playing the President in half a dozen movies. I don't mean that racism is gone -- far from it -- but the Official Version of What's Good, with the stamp of approval of Hollywood, is on the right side of history and is very powerful.
The racists will continue to fight back and of course there will be blood. But I don't see how they can counter total corporate media messaging.
When I was a kid gay men were seen as strange and dangerous, and it was the norm to mock them. Now you have commentators on Fox News who say Muslim countries are bad because they don't give gay people equal rights. That's a huge change.
