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JON REINFURT: TOLERANCE BY DEFINITION

March 6, 2012

Jon Reinfurt worked with Teaching Tolerance magazine to create illustrations for an article about the importance of updating children’s dictionaries. Many of them have outdated definitions that might actually be reinforcing prejudice instead of factoring in today’s sociological perspectives.

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Unfortunately, some of these distorted definitions appear with important words like “race”, “gay”, and “gender”. The basic idea of the story is that changing these definitions could be a positive step towards expanding how children see the world and the people around them.

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