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"Are people prejudiced because they are ignorant, or ignorant because they wear the blinders of prejudice?"

Which do you think and why? No wrong answer.

Tom Fernandez wrote:"Are people prejudiced because they are ignorant, or ignorant because they wear the blinders of prejudice?"

Which do you think and why? No wrong answer.

Sometimes people are not ignorant and prejudice at the same time. Perhaps because they see things for what they really are...

SOme people were not born or raised prejudiced, they had to learn the hard way.

rjroberts wrote:SOme people were not born or raised prejudiced, they had to learn the hard way.

;-)

By definition, prejudice is simply making a judgment on something while ignorant of the facts, good or bad. Therefore, one who is "prejudiced" is indeed, at the time of the judgment, "ignorant." One can be ignorant, though, without making a premature judgment, in which case they are not prejudiced - just too uninformed to make a decision either way.

However, what is it called when one makes a pre-judgment, while ignorant of all the facts, but upon learning those facts, turns out to have been correct initially? We tend to use the word "prejudiced" in a strictly negative connotation, (because that's how we've been conditioned over the last 50 years) when really all it means is, jumping to a conclusion.

But again, what if the prejudiced person is . . . right?

Odessaman wrote:By definition, prejudice is simply making a judgment on something while ignorant of the facts, good or bad. Therefore, one who is "prejudiced" is indeed, at the time of the judgment, "ignorant." One can be ignorant, though, without making a premature judgment, in which case they are not prejudiced - just too uninformed to make a decision either way.

However, what is it called when one makes a pre-judgment, while ignorant of all the facts, but upon learning those facts, turns out to have been correct initially? We tend to use the word "prejudiced" in a strictly negative connotation, (because that's how we've been conditioned over the last 50 years) when really all it means is, jumping to a conclusion.

But again, what if the prejudiced person is . . . right?

Ouch dude. And I thought my head was spinning w/ the original question.

Odessaman wrote: what is it called when one makes a pre-judgment, while ignorant of all the facts, but upon learning those facts, turns out to have been correct initially? We tend to use the word "prejudiced" in a strictly negative connotation, (because that's how we've been conditioned over the last 50 years) when really all it means is, jumping to a conclusion.

But again, what if the prejudiced person is . . . right?

its called Forward thinking and its a gift in some

then one is Biased

Odessaman wrote:By definition, prejudice is simply making a judgment on something while ignorant of the facts, good or bad. Therefore, one who is "prejudiced" is indeed, at the time of the judgment, "ignorant." One can be ignorant, though, without making a premature judgment, in which case they are not prejudiced - just too uninformed to make a decision either way.

However, what is it called when one makes a pre-judgment, while ignorant of all the facts, but upon learning those facts, turns out to have been correct initially? We tend to use the word "prejudiced" in a strictly negative connotation, (because that's how we've been conditioned over the last 50 years) when really all it means is, jumping to a conclusion.

But again, what if the prejudiced person is . . . right?

99% of the time ignorance means wrong, at least in part. The internet has just made it worse because it has made so many erroneous "facts" available to those who wont bother, for whatever reason, to dig out the truth that it's reinforced ignorant prejudices or created new ones instead of curing them.