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[-] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 months ago

There's also the fact that there was a concerted effort to beat left-handedness out of people for a very very long time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_against_left-handed_people

If you go down to Unfavourable Perceptions, there's a load of info on this. Efforts in North America to switch everyone to right-handedness ended around ghe 60s and lefties were more socially accepted by the late 70s. That said there's still a lot of places in Asia that attempt to force lefties to be righties.

My mum is a leftie and in school was beaten for writing with her left hand.

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 5 points 8 months ago

Hopefully we're now in a slightly more enlightened time.

[-] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

Dare to dream....

[-] neoman4426@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago

Hell, the word "sinister" meaning "evil" in modern English comes from that bias, etymologically it means something to do with the left hand side.

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