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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8498838" data-attributes="member: 7023887">Exactly. And not only this, but the conversation is necessary for change to happen. There's plenty of things that should have faded out of the mainstream by now (homophobia, transphobia, ableism, etc), but haven't because we haven't talked about them enough. There are things that were headed in the right direction, but fairly quickly did a complete 180 because people stopped talking about them (racism after the Civil Rights Movement, sexism in recent years, etc). People have known that racism was wrong for a long time, but since it hasn't been talked about all that commonly in the past few decades, it's been on the rise recently (see the recent rise in police brutality and the fallout of George Floyd's death over a year ago). The same thing has been happening with sexism recently, with more and more people being made aware of how common it was due to the #MeToo movement. Those were problems that were supposed to be "fixed" (at least in America) since women got the right to vote, since the Civil Rights Act of the 1960s, and similar events. One change is made and people like to get complacent and think that the problem is fixed, when it really isn't, and not talking about the problem can lead to it coming back. For a long time it's been considered socially okay to call things that you don't like "gay" or "autistic/[ISPOILER]retarded[/ISPOILER]", because people didn't talk about how they were as wrong on a fundamental level as sexism and racism are. Transphobia, Homophobia, Ableism, and similar types of bigotry had largely been considered "not a problem" up until very recently (ableism is a bit more complicated than the other examples, given that it's such a diverse topic). Talking about bigotry isn't a way to fix these types of inequalities, but when we don't talk about it, the problem is practically guaranteed to get way worse. When you know better, you do better, and you can't know better without discussing the topic.</blockquote>

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