It is a great post. I posted a comment there that I'm going to repeat here:
I particularly like the sentiment that "Prejudice is a form of hardening the heart." Not seeing a group of people as fully human is indeed hardening your heart against them. My mother grew up in the 1920's and raised children in the 1950's and 1960's. When, at the bus station, we asked her why there was a separate water fountain for black people, she said, "Some people think they're different from us, but we know better." Years later my sister brought home a young man of mixed ancestry, and we were all very surprised that my mother was upset by this. The truth was, she could not completely cast off her own upbringing, much as she might have wanted to, but she made a real effort to bring us up to believe what she knew, in her heart, was right.
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I particularly like the sentiment that "Prejudice is a form of hardening the heart." Not seeing a group of people as fully human is indeed hardening your heart against them. My mother grew up in the 1920's and raised children in the 1950's and 1960's. When, at the bus station, we asked her why there was a separate water fountain for black people, she said, "Some people think they're different from us, but we know better." Years later my sister brought home a young man of mixed ancestry, and we were all very surprised that my mother was upset by this. The truth was, she could not completely cast off her own upbringing, much as she might have wanted to, but she made a real effort to bring us up to believe what she knew, in her heart, was right.
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