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Myths and Stigma

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.One thing that all minorities have in common is that there is a myth attached to them. No matter how high they rise in society or how low they are placed in a hierarchy, every minority carries some kind of myth, which acts as a source of stigma.

.One myth may seem worse than another, but no myth should ever be a reason to dismiss someone. When exposure to something is low, there is a lot more room to make up ugly things in place of facts.

.Caring about human rights means acknowledging that myths are not facts. It means to think about the reality that minorities often don’t have platforms from which to speak their truth, which leaves only the myths circulating in place of authentic voices.

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On Cousin Marriage Book (and censorship)

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thefinalmanifesto replied to your link: Kissing Cousins
Trust me, I know exactly how you feel. Internet comments are our enemy. I get really disheartened whenever I see them, because it makes me wonder how we can win against such a hateful mass of people.

Thank you, thefinalmanifesto. It makes me feel a little better knowing I’m not alone in this. I usually avoid places I feel are made for restless people to do nothing but ridicule things they don’t understand. But I checked out this site because I couldn’t believe their ‘mission’…to keep library books out of the reach of the public because they don’t think the content is ‘appropriate’… trying to control people’s access to information. Just another way of controlling their minds. And to call something ‘awful’ because they don’t personally like its material or subject theme… The quality of a book shouldn’t be determined by someone’s emotional reaction. Especially a book that simply seeks to present new findings and facts, REALITY in place of destructive myths. That’s a good thing. If they don’t like it all they have to do is avoid it, but to deny other people’s rights to access this information is downright oppressive and only suggests by extension that discrimination against minorities is acceptable.