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<blockquote data-quote="Ana the Ist" data-source="post: 68534857" data-attributes="member: 302807"><p>Maybe you didn't quite catch the point I was trying to make...so I'll restate it a bit more simply...</p><p></p><p>What is prejudice? It's when someone takes their negative perceptions of someone and extends it to an entire group that the person belongs to. It might be based on a piece of information about that group, news stories, personal anecdotes, etc. Suddenly, every individual of a group is perceived negatively based upon the actions of a few of that group.</p><p></p><p>It doesn't matter if it's thinking all young black men are violent and dangerous because of the actions of a few black gang members, or all feminists are crazy because a few said men should be castrated, or all pit bulls are dangerous killing machines because a few have mauled children to death, or all latinos are welfare leeching bums because a few refuse to get jobs, or all whites are overtly racist because a few said the n-word. I could go on but hopefully you get the idea....</p><p></p><p>The same applies to painting all of the 500k cops in this nation as "bad" or "racist" or "crooked" based on the actions of what amounts to a very small number of them.</p><p></p><p>The sad thing here Avniel is that you're doing to them exactly what you don't want them to do to you. You wouldn't want them to judge you based upon the negative experiences they've had with a few black men. You wouldn't want them to treat you like a criminal because of what they see in the news about black violence in their community. Yet you have no problem judging a whopping 75% of them based upon your limited experiences with them and what you've read about in the news.</p><p></p><p>They have a word for this, and it's called hypocrisy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ana the Ist, post: 68534857, member: 302807"] Maybe you didn't quite catch the point I was trying to make...so I'll restate it a bit more simply... What is prejudice? It's when someone takes their negative perceptions of someone and extends it to an entire group that the person belongs to. It might be based on a piece of information about that group, news stories, personal anecdotes, etc. Suddenly, every individual of a group is perceived negatively based upon the actions of a few of that group. It doesn't matter if it's thinking all young black men are violent and dangerous because of the actions of a few black gang members, or all feminists are crazy because a few said men should be castrated, or all pit bulls are dangerous killing machines because a few have mauled children to death, or all latinos are welfare leeching bums because a few refuse to get jobs, or all whites are overtly racist because a few said the n-word. I could go on but hopefully you get the idea.... The same applies to painting all of the 500k cops in this nation as "bad" or "racist" or "crooked" based on the actions of what amounts to a very small number of them. The sad thing here Avniel is that you're doing to them exactly what you don't want them to do to you. You wouldn't want them to judge you based upon the negative experiences they've had with a few black men. You wouldn't want them to treat you like a criminal because of what they see in the news about black violence in their community. Yet you have no problem judging a whopping 75% of them based upon your limited experiences with them and what you've read about in the news. They have a word for this, and it's called hypocrisy. [/QUOTE]
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