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According to research, this is the biggest barrier to social progress.
What is holding unexamined opinions?
Prejudging someone based on height or weight is called this.
What is sizeism?
These environmental activists contributed greatly to the recent youth climate strike. Name one of them. (Bonus points if you name more than one.)
Accepted Responses:
- Who is Greta Thunberg?
- Who is Autumn Peltier?
- Who is Mari Copeny (Little Miss Flint)?
- Who is Xiye Bastida?
This set of laws in the South legalized segregation through "separate but equal" legislation.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This now-popular civil rights leader was highly disliked in his own era, tracked by the US government, and eventually assassinated.
Who is Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr?
According to research, this is the first step in ending racial bias.
What is acknowledging that we have racial biases?
The assumption that all romantic relationships should be made of one man and one woman, and that these types of relationships are superior is called this.
What is heterosexism?
This company aired a commercial about combatting toxic masculinity during the last superbowl that resulted in backlash and boycotts.
What is Gilette?
This is a hate group started in the 1860s that participated in the murder and lynching of Black and African American people.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This civil rights leader was influential in the pan-African movement and believed that civil rights should be won by "any means necessary."
Who is Malcolm X?
According to research, this is one of the most powerful ways that an individual can help curb climate change.
Accepted Responses:
- What is having one fewer child?
- What is living without a car?
- What is supporting green legislation?
- What is holding businesses accountable for their emissions?
The (usually negative) evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture is called this.
What is ethnocentrism?
Earlier this year, this popular English singer came out as nonbinary/genderqueer.
Who is Sam Smith?
This is the celebration of the day that slavery actually ended in all parts of the US.
What is Juneteenth?
These two people were American labor leaders and Latino American civil rights activists. Together they founded the United Farm Workers union. Name one of them.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
OR
Who is Dolores Huerta?
According to research, this is one of the most powerful economic ways you can support your local community.
What is shopping locally?
What is redlining?
A recent movement, led by teens from Parkland, FL, seeks to do this.
What is enact common sense gun control?
This addition to the constitution gave Black men the right to vote in 1870.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This riot in the 1960s in New York City was the beginning of the modern day LGBTQIA+ Pride movement.
What is the Stonewall Riot?
According to research, this is one of the most powerful ways that any citizen can influence changes in US government.
What is voting?
This form of discrimination always has to be based on heirarchy and can only go one direction.
What are -isms?
Crossing into the US illegally is considered this type of offense?
What is a civil misdemeanor?
There are two types of racial segregation. Name one of them.
What is de jure segregation?
OR
What is de facto segregation?
This Filipino-American poet and activist was instrumental in the housing and anti-gentrification movements in the 1960s.
Who is Al Robles?