Are stigmas and and prejudices, inherently based on fear, ignorance and hatred?

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Heather McGhee (who's she? http://www.demos.org/heather-c-mcghee) was on C-SPAN not too long ago fielding questions from callers when she gets a call from Gary from North Caroline...

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The conversation in this video is by far more important than shouting "Your views are wrong!" The problem is this is a best case scenario. In the link below you can read a follow up of Gary going to the library to check out books to learn more about people of color. What I see on a daily basis are people who are happy to hate, and who would like nothing more than to not need to learn more about people who are different from them. The conversation in the video is a two way street where both people were willing to listen. Unfortunately, that's not always the case.

In my opinion, and I think it follows, learning eliminates fear-based prejudice, but the issue is getting to a place where people on both sides want that conversation. Heather McGhee was well-prepared, but you could easily see a lesser person snapping at the "I'm prejudice." Again, it's a two way street.

Here's a follow-up on Gary.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/0...nt-america

That was a very good video, and a very sensitive question that guy asked. The response was making me a little nervous, but it was delivered well. It made me somewhat nervous, because it was required to be a sensitive response to such a sensitive question, and such things can often go awry and ruin everything. 

This does seem to play in a little to what I was saying about not understanding and fear underlying prejudice in general. I'd go as far to say that it's what makes up all prejudice and hate, as a universal rule, based on so many conjectures I have made.