Self-racism?

[Dystopia]

My parents raised six children with that saying and we all turned out just fine. We are not racist nor do we give a shit what deragotory terms or names are thrown around. We learned to consider the source and move on.

My parents raised me with that saying too. I also turned out fine. That's not the point. Your words have meaning and they can be hurtful. It's not true that words can't hurt someone. I tell my kids to think before they speak because their words can have more impact than they realize.

And teaching wrong things to kids can make them grow up thinking it is true - It all starts with childhood. If I taught my kids to be white supremacists and showed them white supremacist books, movies, etc, they'd probably grow up thinking they are right and that everyone else is wrong. Maybe they would back down later, like theists de-convert, but it's not an easy process. I'm not a parent, but raising kids ideologically should be impartial and not biased

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So I think it is laziness and stupidity. And, of course, it can be initiated by indoctrination, the way any fool beliefs might be. Those who do not bother with thinking the matter through, end up retaining their prejudices, just like people who do not think things through very well often retain their religious indoctrination. And I might as well add, just because one bothers to think about one thing carefully, that does not mean that one will bother to think about everything else with equal care. So one can escape from one stupid belief or set of beliefs while retaining some other stupid beliefs.

Indoctrination and your surroundings, where you grow, with whom and with what can influence what you will become. I was raised by an empowering impartial and reasonably liberal woman and so I turned out to be a pretty fair minded person and I dislike prejudices. Using your assertion, since she was raised by a white family and she only found out about adoption later it's probable that she absorbed negative stereotypes before, because those are stereotypes all over the society I live in - Gypsies are basically like Muslims in France or blacks in America, people don't like them and the police doesn't like them.