You meet someone who clearly doesn't care about his or her personal appearance. Notice how intense your feelings of contempt and disgust are, welling from deep within your subconscious. Notice how immediately you judge them.
Could you change yourself so you don't feel and think this way? Would you want to change?
Personal appearance is very much a marker of social class, so this exercise illustrates just how powerfully indicators of social class affect your thoughts and actions. Pessimistically, it illustrates how difficult it will be to solve the class conflicts that face society.
Previously: fat shaming as a prime example. Do you wish you could unsee that (nearly) naked fat person? ("Eye bleach")
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