Does the Net help us to overcome prejudice by putting race, religion, age, gender, and handicap out of sight?
We do not conquer our prejudices by putting all foreignness out of sight. The things we prefer to keep out of sight are, in fact, the things that will subsequently rule us most effectively from our subconscious. The roots of prejudice lie in the human being, and cannot be eradicated with a trick of technology. Certainly we cannot be more fully human toward each other by being less human, less there, less in view. Moreover, we discriminate against each other quite as easily on the basis of belief and other intangibles as on the basis of appearance. As long as anything of the other person remains, there’s something to discriminate against. If prejudice easily “disappears” across the Net, it is because the person himself easily disappears. But getting rid of the other person in this way begins to sound suspiciously like “termination with extreme prejudice.
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