Tinkerntom wrote:

And so I assume you are not comfortable with your prejudices, at least
those which you have been able to identify, and are busy analyzing and
contemplating!

What about the ones you have not been able to identify, inorder to
analyze and contemplate, are you comfortable or ignorant of them?


Gee, tell me what they are and I'll let you know. Of those that I have,
I have spent years analyzing their sources and coming to terms with
them. All of us, for example, have plenty of reason to reassess our
feelings about folks from the Middle East, their primary religion, and
their feelings toward "Americans." Fear, anger, and frustration lead us
to do that. Am I comfortable with the thoughts that have been expressed,
or the emotions I've felt? Absoulutely not. There is no justification
for accepting gross generalizations about strangers and parroting them
as though they are truths. So no, my prejudices and biases make me very
uncomfortable.

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First life is a difficult process, Getting comfortable with life and
all it throws at us is a part of that process, including our
prejudices. I don't know that we ever totally complete the process,
except hopefully the day we die. Then if we could look back, we might
hear someone say "Well done, you have run the race that was set before
you!"


I refuse to accept prejudice. It is, perhaps, the single most
destructive emotion, with the possible exception of pride. You may be
comfortable with yours, but frankly, I think that anyone who is has
chosen ignorance over enlightenment. This is, as I said before, the
height of stupidity.

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Rick