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    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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      Genuine question. How do you solve decades of religious indoctrination, poor education, and racism en masse?

      I could maybe educate my two parents, maybe. But then what?

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        Genuine answer: one mind and one heart at a time. With any luck, some of them become influential and the message spreads more rapidly.

        Religious indoctrination is hard, because so many of them teach that indoctrinating others is a way to save them. Ultimately, however, the whole belief system is a house of cards. It takes surprisingly little to bring it down. Ask them how they know that what they believe merits their belief. It starts there.

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        Encourage them to educate their friends. Tell people you successfully educated your parents. You can’t change this alone, but that alone does heavy lifting in that sentence