![]() ![]() Some people tell themselves, ‘It’s just a joke,’ or ‘It’s not like there was violence.’ Admittedly, it’s a lot harder to speak up than it is for me to write about it. Some people are afraid of what will happen to them if they do speak up. ![]() There are several reasons for that, of course. So why do these things happen? More to the point, why don’t they stop? The answer is complex, but part of it is arguably that people don’t always speak up when they see/hear bigotry in action. Hate speech, bullying, and so on go on all the time. That’s for just one year, and just the incidents that were serious enough to be reported. In the US alone, the FBI reported over five thousand such incidents in 2020. People make slurs of all kinds, and there are all sorts of reports of hate/bigotry incidents. If you ask most people whether bigotry and the hate crimes that go with it are wrong, they’ll probably tell you ‘Yes, of course they’re wrong!’ And yet, we all know that that sort of hatred is out there. ![]()
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