Visibility campaigns reduce prejudice by making a concealable group’s size known

Evidence

Like atheism, homosexuality is concealable, and people may similarly be uncertain of how numerous atheists and homosexuals actually are. This similarity is strongly emphasized by Dawkins … who argues that anti-atheist prejudice might be overcome if atheists can find a way to “come out” and raise public awareness of atheism like the Gay Pride movement mobilized widespread support for the acceptance of homosexuality. These movements make plain how numerous atheists and homosexuals actually are. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 314

Categorization

• FICTION: Inversion for Rodrigues’s Japan: the fumi-e forced priests to publicly make their hidden allegiance visible in the opposite direction — a forced coming-out that destroys concealability rather than celebrating it.