Monday, April 18, 2016

Educating About Discrimination Beyond School & Blog- Youtube Comments

I have noticed that some popular youtubers are playing a game that gives you one question at a time, and each question has two answers. It is a would you rather game. And when you choose, it shows you what the majority of other people chose. It presents very interesting options, and that leads to very interesting comments and conversations in the comment section. I have seen people discuss the history of WW2, time travel science, and star wars characters. In one episode, one of the two youtubers was presented with "punch jar jar binks or talk to yoda".  And that meant that loads of people in the comments talked excitedly about how they would kill jar jar because of how annoying the character was. And the fact that the mere mention of a jar jar can show just how many people discriminate is saddening, but also presents a perfect opurtunity for me to educate them. I wrote up a comment explaining what discrimination is, and why it is bad, and how what they are doing is bad, so they can see the whole picture. Maybe even get them thinking. I sign that comment with "Sincerely, Matthew, Blogger and Semi-Teacher", copy it, and paste it as a reply to all of those comments I see.

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