The truth behind resistance to human rights

A great deal of effort goes into activism/advocacy and education for human rights, and resistance to being decent continues. 

The truth is that lack of knowledge/awareness is not the key problem: it is the flawed character of bigots that is the problem. 

The fearful/hateful/other personality/character flaws of the white supremacist bigot who is using laws against the brainwashing of children committed by the nazis in 1930s and 40s Germany to enable them to brainwash their children into being white supremacists is the problem - not their level of conscious awareness of their evil, let alone their willingness to take an ego hit by admitting - whether privately or publicly - that they are wrong. 

The excuses bureaucrats and officials such as police, border officials, and records managers use to hide behind when they are being white supremacist, transphobic, or any other form of bigot are only the surface layer of the problem - it is their cowardice, sadistic abuse of power, and the flaw(s) that led them to be bigots in the first place that are the main problem ... a problem that, if not addressed, leads to repeat occurrences of this problems. Bigotry is a hydra, and when one head is lopped off, at least one other will grow - unless the underlying inadequacies as human beings is addressed. 

The superficiality of “leaders” doing whatever will allow them to continue working towards whatever they want is an outcome of their character flaws - possibly including, in some cases, psychopathy - and that, rather than counting numbers of inclusions or enquiring into aspects of their tools (e.g., media ownership, funding of political campaigns, etc) is what needs to be changed. 

If we are to survive, let alone thrive, we need to start being honest about the problems of bad people (including ownership to the fact that their bad deeds often mean they are bad people - who are WRONG when they say the victims of their latest expression of bigotry are “bad” because they aren’t white, or don’t conform to stereotypes, or were “born on the wrong side of the tracks”, or are different in some other unimportant way) and addressing their flaws, including addressing aspects such as how they were raised, rather than going down a tail-wagging-the-dog exercise of trying to do “whack-a-mole” on the latest expressions of their hate, greed, fear, and selfishness.

We need to do so through the means I decried at the start of this post - activism/advocacy and education - but aimed at enabling personal growth.

And anyone who has a problem with being a better human being should go back to the 1600s where they belong.