Create Distance

Outlive Explanation

Outlive Explanations

Outlive Their Usefulness

Quietly Divide

Take Root

prejudice

bigotry

water

tattoo

poor

privilege

trailer park

tiny house

Christianity

right wing

religious right

No physician can cure a prejudice, which is a blindness in the mind. Traditional Proverb

is a great time saver in that it allows one to form opinions without having to get the facts.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

is a necessary condition of all historical (and other) understanding and rather than constituting a willful blindness which prevents us from grasping the truth, they are what we stand on to help launch our understanding.

He also believed that the philosophers of the Enlightenment erred in their belief that prejudices were purely negative and something which had to be overcome in the search for objective truth. On the contrary, Gadamer maintains prejudice is a necessary condition of all historical (and other) understanding (Mueller-Volmer, 1985). For Gadamer, our prejudices do not constitute a willful blindness, which prevents us from grasping the truth... rather they are what we stand on to help launch our understanding. Indeed, it is this initial set of beliefs that allow us to interrogate the topic under discussion.

is a tool of conquest with as much capacity to kill and destroy as bombs and explosions and fallout.

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices -to be found in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own -for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.Rod Serling

is cherished the more rooted it is, for the stock of reason in each man is small, and one would do better to avail oneself of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.

Instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree, and, to take more shame to ourselves, we cherish them because they are prejudices... and the longer they have lasted and the more generally they have prevailed, the more we cherish them. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason... because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.

is even more effective than talking together.

even more effective than talking together.

is invisible simply when people refuse to see them.

I am an invisible man.... I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids ' and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

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