Yes, I've met many people who claim to have no prejudices, who believe they have none. Those are people who claim they accept everybody just as they are and then judge people with viewpoints opposed to their own. Wanna be saints and wanna be world savers. Not necessarily talking abou race here, but all kinds of attributes a person might show. It's a form of denial.
Maybe claiming was the wrong word Steve; people hear someone share observations, get offended by that and instead of trying to see if there was something true to those observations, label someone as racist/sexist as a knee jerk response since it's easier to label someone as evil than to change their world view and view of themselves.
I'm not confused by what prejudice means, other posters (Graham, origami, Ian) are. Maybe you are too.
Wow, thanks for explaining bigotry. Wouldn't have thought that there are positive and negative prejudices. Benefit of doubt is also a positive one.
You say racists are prejudiced. Then say the same thing again and add they're bigots too. Previously you tried to define positive and negative racism, then try to deny positive racism. I think races exist. I think physical properties define person's just as much as energetic and mental one's and that all three are connected in everybody. Change the physicality, change the rest. Yes, I'm saying think of bone structures, skin colours and whatever else you want. And who cares what it means when you compare races? It's just the way things are. If every other group is smarter and better than me, so what? I'm an individual
"True racists need to have power." True rapists need to have raped someone. Does crime or 'sin' not start at the level of emotion and thought? And who are you to tell persons how to use their (acquired or given) power? If they make the 'right choice' (in your eyes) by their own, cool. Otherwise you're messing with their free will. People should have the right to live with whom they want, no?
What you're claiming in the 3rd paragraph - I didn't argue that. Didn't know you were American, but I thought so (no negativity implied). I think everyone is always prejudiced in one way or the other - or they would just see information / make observation / use their senses without adding their personal opinion based on emotional and identity issues.
I didn't follow the history of blacks in America that much - I don't think it's worth more or less than any other group's history. I couldn't care less. Things are the way things are.
Well It's cool what you shared about your school experiences and what motivated you. You could call denying a group/race of history, culture, literature (transmission of info, verbal or nonverbal), philosophy, mythology just plain stupid. I also would despise such people and generally avoid them - chances are that's not the only stupid view they have.
Why don't mixed people count as anything? If I mix rum and coke I got a tasty drink (can't drink anymore - too sad!)
Do you mean there's an inside and outside race? Yet you can't have up without down.
Yes, we Germans (well I'm actually Polish, but born and raised in Germany), received lots of help from kind people
You can find every attribute in humans everywhere - but tendencies exist and it doesn't help to ignore differences if the ignorance is based in ideology.
Maybe to clarify - I think globalisation and mixing of nations etc is a great thing. It just helps to know what it is you're adding to what and how to add everything together so the result doesn't taste like shit.
Edit: Change the rest, change the physicality. Both apply. Now add geographical features again. Soul of a country?
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