Prejudice
"Are you prejudiced?" asks StapMyVitals. Have you been a victim of prejudice? Are you a columnist for a popular daily newspaper? Don't bang on about how you never judge people on first impressions - no-one will believe you.
( , Thu 1 Apr 2010, 12:53)
"Are you prejudiced?" asks StapMyVitals. Have you been a victim of prejudice? Are you a columnist for a popular daily newspaper? Don't bang on about how you never judge people on first impressions - no-one will believe you.
( , Thu 1 Apr 2010, 12:53)
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yes I am...
I am prejudiced, I admit, in fact we all are to a greater or lesser degree, we are all inbuilt through evolution to cling to our tribe members and automatically be hostile to those who do not fit our narrow view of what we ourselves are like or match our own values and beliefs. We are hard wired to behave that way but through education and civilisation we suppress it. We also tend to be prejudiced and be hostile to what we fear however irrational that belief is.
The key point is the level of your stupidity and ignorance based on your cultural and familial upbringing and degree of familiarity with what you are prejudiced against and how open you are to change those beliefs based on reasoning and experience.
That being said I have experienced prejudice and hostility to greater or lesser degree for being, vegetarian, Scottish, having four children, atheism, white middle class, age but throughout it all I have managed to grow a pair and got over it.
But then again nobody has tried to burn me at a stake, lynch me , put me in concentration camp or fucking gas me.
I am prejudiced when I interview people for a job, I am be heavily biased against employing born again Christians because of their divisive and stupid beliefs and the negative effect it would have on the office whereas I wouldn’t if they were Black, Asian, Jews or gay though I might if they were practising Muslims.
Am I a hypocrite because I personally loathe racists or anti-Semites, religious bigots, born again Christians, people who discriminate against the disabled and misogynists? Yes because they can use exactly the same arguments, however warped, to justify their beliefs. The difference is I don’t want to murder them for who they are or what they believe.
Oh, last thing ....what what about them horse stealing tarmacing swindling heather selling caravan dwelling fucking Pikeys...;)
( , Sat 3 Apr 2010, 13:17, 5 replies)
I am prejudiced, I admit, in fact we all are to a greater or lesser degree, we are all inbuilt through evolution to cling to our tribe members and automatically be hostile to those who do not fit our narrow view of what we ourselves are like or match our own values and beliefs. We are hard wired to behave that way but through education and civilisation we suppress it. We also tend to be prejudiced and be hostile to what we fear however irrational that belief is.
The key point is the level of your stupidity and ignorance based on your cultural and familial upbringing and degree of familiarity with what you are prejudiced against and how open you are to change those beliefs based on reasoning and experience.
That being said I have experienced prejudice and hostility to greater or lesser degree for being, vegetarian, Scottish, having four children, atheism, white middle class, age but throughout it all I have managed to grow a pair and got over it.
But then again nobody has tried to burn me at a stake, lynch me , put me in concentration camp or fucking gas me.
I am prejudiced when I interview people for a job, I am be heavily biased against employing born again Christians because of their divisive and stupid beliefs and the negative effect it would have on the office whereas I wouldn’t if they were Black, Asian, Jews or gay though I might if they were practising Muslims.
Am I a hypocrite because I personally loathe racists or anti-Semites, religious bigots, born again Christians, people who discriminate against the disabled and misogynists? Yes because they can use exactly the same arguments, however warped, to justify their beliefs. The difference is I don’t want to murder them for who they are or what they believe.
Oh, last thing ....what what about them horse stealing tarmacing swindling heather selling caravan dwelling fucking Pikeys...;)
( , Sat 3 Apr 2010, 13:17, 5 replies)
FFS don't mention being a Vegetarian on here. The Meat Nazis will be all over you.
see www.b3ta.com/questions/letterstheywillneverread/post653496?highlight=answers-post-657810
:)
( , Sat 3 Apr 2010, 14:58, closed)
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