Simple question and answer to ask yourself...
Does it affect you personally?
It's not a question of how it affects you emotionally, it's about what impact any form of prejudice has on a person's life.
Simple answer? It doesn't.
I had a watershed moment with my daughter a year ago...out of the blue she said "Daddy, boys can marry boys and girls can marry girls." It wasn't a question, but it was, she was looking for my validation of her point. I recognized at that point that if I answered "No, they can't" she would be influenced by my injection of opinion and she would think it's not okay.
I said, "Of course they can."
And that was the end of the conversation.
So much prejudice and bigotry starts at childhood from parents who learned from their parents to think a certain way. They see and hear everything.
I'll get off my soapbox in a second, but lastly I loved this quote I read recently...
"When we get caught up in the minutiae and the details that make us all different, I think there’s two ways of seeing that. There’s the opportunity to see the texture of that person, the characteristics that make them unique, and then there’s an opportunity to go to war about it and say that this person is different from me, I don’t like you, let’s battle."
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