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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
This is exactly what I thought fifteen or twenty years ago when I argued with religious people about gay marriage. "If we can just make this opinion publicly unacceptable to hold, the homophobes will all just keep it to themselves and slowly die off." I suspect others had similar thoughts about holocaust denial and neo-nazism, especially in mainland Europe... It doesn't actually work that way.
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It does marginalize beliefs though. Generational change is probably the least invasive type of social change and the most effective. Its where well funded public education is so important. Now that the US is failing at that you might continue to see these types of beliefs propagate but if you can avoid brainwashing kids to hate things it really does move things forward quickly.