The Shared DNA of Sexism, Racism, and Homophobia

Why one generally comes with the others, it’s not about hate it’s about power

Kurt Löwenstein Educational Center International Team from Germany, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

I’ll skip over the whole discussion of nurture vs. nature. All these traits are learned, though, in some families, it starts so early that it might as well be in the genes. The good news is that these things can be unlearned, but that generally happens…