Anti-Prejudice messages have opposite effect - They make people more prejudice

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Basically, I love this. What a perfect example of how humans can try to improve society and it just blows up in their faces.

Maybe this should be a lesson to all the thought police out there, you can't ram agendas down peoples throats.

Organizations and programs have been set up all over the globe in the hopes of urging people to end prejudice. According to a research article, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, such programs may actually increase prejudices.
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According to Dr. Legault, “Controlling prejudice reduction practices are tempting because they are quick and easy to implement. They tell people how they should think and behave and stress the negative consequences of failing to think and behave in desirable ways.” Legault continues, “But people need to feel that they are freely choosing to be nonprejudiced, rather than having it forced upon them.”
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http://www.psychologicalscience.org...ronic-effects-of-anti-prejudice-messages.html
 
I'm reading a study on how homosexuality in media and the amount of positivity (and also eroticism) affect different people.

Too much of either eroticism or positivity and most people apparently either get grossed out or believe its a hollywood construction and not real (and thus turned off to it). But its only one study, and only just been peer-reviewed . . .
 
Kinda like electing a black man president was supposed to end the racial divide but in fact made it wider.
 
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