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 %PREJUDICE RACIAL ETHNIC LANGUAGE SEXUAL INJUSTICE 940704

     In racial prejudice, judgments are passed upon people
of  a  minority race without respect for their  individual
histories  and differences.   The same goes for religious,
ethnic,  linguistic,  sexual and other forms of prejudice.
All  forms of prejudice entail injustice and the violation
of personal integrity---and so entail violence.

     Prejudice is mot likely to be expressed by people who
are  insecure and feel threatened  by  differences --- by
the  absence of what they regard as comforting conformity.
For  them  non-conformity  and the  absence of a conformal
consensus  is  threatening,  and engenders insecurity  and
defensive behaviors; e.g., prejudicial behaviors.

     People    are   often   insecure   regarding   sexual
expressions  of  desires,  feelings and affection.   Thus,
there  are often occasions of prejudice where  differences
regarding  persons and their  histories  are  ignored, and
judgments are made without respect for such differences.

     Insecure people often seek security in simplicity and
in  deep  conviction   that their trust in  simplicity  is
justified.  Trust in simplicity often leads to dichotomous
judgments,    characterized  by  "either/or,"    "yes/no,"
"right/wrong," "moral/immoral,"  "good/evil,"  etc.   Such
simplicity may be comforting to simple-minded  people  who
fear  ambiguity---but  it   often   leads  to  alienation,
coercion, manipulations,  violence, resentment and overall
disintegration.

     When  insecure  people  seek  to  deal  with  complex
reflexive  relationships  in simple ways  they  are  often
unable to respond to complexity in wise ways.   Thus there
has   been  much  alienation,   coercion,    manipulation,
violence, resentment and overall disintegration related to
intimate relationships which involve human sexuality.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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