prejudices
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In a message dated 4/30/02 11:51:36 AM, fetteroll@... writes:
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If a black guy living in a black neighborhood were beaten up by that bunch
of black teens, he'd be in the same position as the first example. He'd have
had lots of prior experience with a variety of black teens so his experience
with one bad bunch wouldn't be extended to them all. >>
If my sister were raped by a marine in uniform, I might or might not hold it
against all marines, depending in part how many other marines I knew. I
would expect my sister to twinge when she saw uniformed marines for a while
afterward.
She was raped, but not by a marine. I'm declining to say by what manner of a
person. Some people might have a prejudice fanned by it, for not having been
around those kinds of people much.
People here who are, have been, have dads who were Marines might be offended
by my non-true example.
My brother in law was in prison once, for a very short while, for a drug
charge for which he was put out of the SEALS, when they had been in Cambodia
and VietNam when they should not really have been there. His whole
squad/group/company/whatever packs navy seals come in was scattered hither
and yon suddenly, and he was in a prison in Florida where he met and had
certain relationships with Black men which he had never had before. He
doesn't much like Black men at all now. Unfair? Perhaps so. Unfair that he
was sent to prison for smoking dope (victimless crime) after what the
military had been having him do in the same time frame? Am I prejudiced
against covert military operations? Unfair?
Sandra
whose head actually is kind of starting to hurt now...
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If a black guy living in a black neighborhood were beaten up by that bunch
of black teens, he'd be in the same position as the first example. He'd have
had lots of prior experience with a variety of black teens so his experience
with one bad bunch wouldn't be extended to them all. >>
If my sister were raped by a marine in uniform, I might or might not hold it
against all marines, depending in part how many other marines I knew. I
would expect my sister to twinge when she saw uniformed marines for a while
afterward.
She was raped, but not by a marine. I'm declining to say by what manner of a
person. Some people might have a prejudice fanned by it, for not having been
around those kinds of people much.
People here who are, have been, have dads who were Marines might be offended
by my non-true example.
My brother in law was in prison once, for a very short while, for a drug
charge for which he was put out of the SEALS, when they had been in Cambodia
and VietNam when they should not really have been there. His whole
squad/group/company/whatever packs navy seals come in was scattered hither
and yon suddenly, and he was in a prison in Florida where he met and had
certain relationships with Black men which he had never had before. He
doesn't much like Black men at all now. Unfair? Perhaps so. Unfair that he
was sent to prison for smoking dope (victimless crime) after what the
military had been having him do in the same time frame? Am I prejudiced
against covert military operations? Unfair?
Sandra
whose head actually is kind of starting to hurt now...
Sharon Rudd
> SandraWasn't that one of those compulsions or something...or
> whose head actually is kind of starting to hurt
> now...
was that only other people's heads?
There are emotional prejudices as opposed to
intellectual ones and then there actual physical
memories that have responses unrelated to any
conscious thinking. Such a flinching away from a
remembered pain source. A new response can be
learned, such a curtailing the flinch, but it will
still be there. That is not a prejudice. And
curtailing the flinch is merely polite (depending).
Sharon of the Swamp
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