RE: Are stigmas and and prejudices, inherently based on fear, ignorance and hatred?
February 8, 2017 at 9:21 pm
(This post was last modified: February 8, 2017 at 9:23 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
That is a good one. I have contempt (and outright seething hatred) for plenty of folks and groups, though I doubt that anyone but the usual suspects would "accuse" me of hate or contempt in many of those examples. It would be rationalized as something else, some softer sounding word. Nor, do I think, would they find my contempt or hatred for those individuals or groups to be an issue of not understanding them, nor would they find me at a loss for a rational justification for those emotions I feel towards them.
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