How We Can Reduce Prejudice with a Conversation | David Fleischer | TEDxMidAtlantic

[@Talon3000]

Talking to people face to face really is the best thing to fight prejudices. Not scream "racist" or "faggot" or "homophobe". Once you drop identity politics you will see only people instead of races, genders, religions or sexualities. Then you can start treating everyone the same. That is humanism.

[@user-wc3ru5me3m]

I once heard, "facts don't touch and change hearts, stories do" This proves that to be true...I love the REAL connections made with this deep canvassing approach!

[@williamandrews3482]

I personally like this TED talk because it shows a rather liberal view, but not with demonizing the other side and by showing that they do understand the reason other people think the way they do and not telling that they are wrong and call them horrible names. Also this TED talk isn't just about their left view, but a different lesson can be taken from about how to bring someone over to your view point, whatever it is without being an ass to them or bulling them, like people on the left, the right and middle have and are doing.

[@emperorlelouch5696]

This was incredible! I truly believe that everyone can change and have their biases changed if they just listen. I want to be able to change this world step by step person by person by helping them come to an understanding on how things truly are and to see the light.

[@vanjohnson1373]

Very well-prepared presentation in a very nice, gentle manner. It demonstrated that People could change their mindset if only they would take time to listen and be open-minded. I like it.

[@CJ_Walks]

Potentially the most underrated Ted Talk I've seen.

[@facetofacedelagandara8108]

I'm spanish and i'm listening some ted talks to improve my english haha, i think i could understand most of the video and i have to say thay is beutiful and i agree whith it, we can change little by little the world using words 😁

[@friedrichdergroe9664]

I would say that this issue shouldn't even be up for a vote. Does it make sense that voters can vote on the rights of others? What is wrong with that picture.

[@Tripper111]

Hats off to you, great video bud...

[@EricaEteson]

This guy's a genius.

[@melanieidachopko]

Virginia too!

[@belkyhernandez8281]

Yes he is!!!!!

[@roguedogx]

Wait... he's 61! doesn't look it.

[@BabvBlues]

Very interesting video

[@Молчацкий]

Терпение и терпимость имеют такую силу...

[@dotty9890]

Just want to inform the TED team to take a second look on the title, a bit more closely this time

[@jexsubrejhma6599]

You can't stop people from being prejudice. Being prejudice is a form of belief, and it's not always about accepting something that one doesn't feel is right. I'm prejudice against several things, but it doesn't make me a bad person for having those prejudices.

[@nevermind-bk3vd]

Jexsu Brejhma i agree. its in the human nature to have prejudices but still i think that some of our prejudices are "outdated". we dont have to fear lgbt people as we have the possibility to know that they are not dangerous/weird/against our nature etc. based on sciene and research. therefore it would be nice if we as humans could get rid of them.

[@nevermind-bk3vd]

the prejudices not the lgbt people :D that was close

[@janiviolin]

That's actually not true. Sometimes people are prejudice based on fears that are not rooted in fact and reality. And, once they get to know someone with a background they were taught to be prejudice against, they realize that they didn't need to hold that bias and that they were wrong. This happens all the time.

[@Aleksander_Konieczny]

Great video! People can change!

[@KiiroSagi]

Didn't TED already post this? Save yourself time, the title is misleading. It's "How to correct misconceptions of an open-minded person." it has little to do with actual bigots you meet who are often hostile and stubborn.

[@Skoda130]

But where does the title speak about bigots?

[@belkyhernandez8281]

It's a safe bet that if the canvasser had approached that man by talking down to him and calling him a bigot the conversation would have gone in a direction.

[@guyazbell8169]

No one is promised tommorow, we are in the last seconds of the age of grace, i hate no man hell is a very very bad horrible tormenting place i dont wish to see my worst enemy to have to go to if i had a worst enemy, wide is the road that leads to hell but narrow is the path that leads to Heaven and few who find it, praying for everyone, btw sorry for descriptive words but its to late for tickly ears.

[@chuyen3743]

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[@rahul17023]

How to reduce post judice.

[@abhiarun3349]

i cant find this talk on ted application

[@matiastoledo4201]

Not all of them are, there are a few that I never found either

[@patriciacovarrubias3127]

No inglés

[@ScottHz]

I wish he would have used “respond” instead of “react” - reacting would have been to walk away or lash out. What he did was respond (with a thoughtfully laid out response), not ‘react’, which really would better describe the robocall or someone who might lash out against the epithet.

[@glennhonestly6600]

she?

[@curiousabout1]

You're wrong. A reaction is in no way inherently negative. A response IS a reaction, and a reaction is a response. You need a better understanding of English before you make semantic suggestions.

[@matiaslucas8933]

Do not let the Mormons listen to this Talk!

[@danielbonilla454]

please,someone translate this video to spanish.

[@lucas13flu]

This video was mostly great, I really wish all those angry SJW's would take the time to watch this. There are some things I still don't agree with however. Why should we change our pronouns to fit your personal feelings? (especially since gender is not a personal opinion, it is defined by biology) Why should a person who looks like a man be allowed to use the woman's bathroom, when it clearly allows rapists to do the same? With that being said, this really is a great attitude. Not everyone has trangender friends they can talk to and ask these questions, so this is a great oportunity for us to leave our echo chambers and realise what the other side thinks too.

[@daniels.os.]

Not going to discuss with you :) But just wanted to point an error: Gender is not defined by biology. It is a social construction. Sex is defined by biology at the first term (when you are born). But, anyways, that can be changed as well :) Receive a hug!

[@lucas13flu]

If you don't want to discuss that's certainly fine, I'd love to though. I think the message of the video is that if people with different opinions talk to each other they might change their point of views in a mutually beneficial way, so I'd love to discuss this with an open mind. If you still don't want to it's ok, it really is rare for a youtube comment debate to be productive mostly.

[@daniels.os.]

I wouldn't tell you something you can not find on scientific and sociological researches on the web or the library. I just wanted to point a fact that I've read and studied from multiple (overwhelming majority) proven sources :) But thanks for the disposition bro. The next TedX speech should be: "How can we reduce prejudice with a youtube comment section conversation?" We need it badly this last years. KZbin comments section has become a real war of prejudices, functional illiteracies and cognitive dissonances among non-professional people talking about topics they don't know the whole truth but just want to push their own personal experience or narrow facts... or just simple and plain intolerance and hate (fear and prejudices) and open lies. We can not live spitting cowardness behind a screen. That's too easy.

[@lucas13flu]

Very true, probably because most people here are underage and got into the whole "edgy" thing. I don't think there will ever be a mostly mature audience on youtube but it doesn't matter, as long as people willing to open their minds can do so.

[@H4WK6969]

Prejudice will always be prevalent, suck it up buttercup.

[@ahmed85021]

Doesn't mean it can't be minimized

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[@ScrappyXFL]

Hold on, she just said who she's attracted to...that means it is just a preference. You can get your rocks off in many different ways. There is a choice of whether to engage in the preference or not. So basically this whole talk is how to sell your preference to others. Getting approval of others for what you are doing. This is sick. I can tolerate others actions, but approval is another thing. I won't go to a gay "wedding", doesn't mean I won't love them; it's just refusal to approve of it by me presence in what I believe is naturally wrong. Then again I believe the truest form of love is *a choice*. You can have feelings for others, that is fine. Yet when it comes down to being wronged by someone or being a burden, ultimately it comes to a choice of are you going to show love even when there is no affection or desire inherent in one's self to do good for others. Affection, infatuation, lust, horny, joy, happiness...all that feeling shit can go away or turn to digust, hate, withdrawing, hardening...still you *CHOOSE* to love the other person. In that respect the unnatural is done over instinct, your intellect will/can override your feelings. The only way you can justify an unnatural feeling is accepting that you are doing the unnatural. If that is a way of life for you, then it need not be acceptable to others. Selling that position to people is deceptive.