Posted: Feb 22, 2012 11:46 pm
From the article:
"Prejudice, we are beginning to understand, rises not from malice or hostile animus alone. It may result as well from insensitivity caused by simple want of careful, rational reflection or from some instinctive mechanism to guard against people who appear to be different in some respects from ourselves."
This is something that I have thought for some time. There are people out there who actively hate and fear the "other". Much of prejudice (IMHO) can be laid at the feet of human laziness.
It's just so much work to treat people as individuals.
"Prejudice, we are beginning to understand, rises not from malice or hostile animus alone. It may result as well from insensitivity caused by simple want of careful, rational reflection or from some instinctive mechanism to guard against people who appear to be different in some respects from ourselves."
This is something that I have thought for some time. There are people out there who actively hate and fear the "other". Much of prejudice (IMHO) can be laid at the feet of human laziness.
It's just so much work to treat people as individuals.