We should remind our professors and students of the atheist Rousseau's powerful case
against the prejudices of enlightenment.
(Perhaps it's a mirror image of the difficulties Justin Simien's «Dear White People» faced finding distribution in the U.K.) As far as I know, Kureishi is heterosexual, but he uses gayness as a battering ram
against the prejudices of Thatcher's England, as well as the narrow - mindedness of his own diaspora.
Nonetheless, during the 1940s and 1950s, Gottlieb joined forces with his peers to publicize and protest
against the prejudices of art curators against avant - garde art.
Not exact matches
While this controversy never circulated to that level («Goodfellas» also has Irish and Jewish - Americans as major characters), «Goodfellas» at least showed that Scorsese was aware
of prejudice against Italians.
By anti-Semitism is here intended not the latent
prejudice against Jews which is a common phenomenon in history and which, as Rabbi Joel Blau put it, «dates back to the beginnings
of the Jewish people.»
Prejudice against Jews is at least as old as 1654 in North America and its negative evidences may be found in the histories
of most
of the clubs and colleges and residential districts
of the country.
If, in your rapport - building and qualifying stages
of the sales process, you discover some
prejudices against your type
of product, you'll have to overcome those before you can move forward.
I find myself speaking out more and more about the things I can not accept — like the failed war on drugs, mistreatment
of refugees,
prejudice against the LGBT community, or the fact that the death penalty still exists despite being proven to not deter crime.
The impulse
of many eCommerce bloggers is
prejudiced against this goal; «it doesn't showcase my products» or «it doesn't apply to my products» are common objections.
Many
of the folks she once had a
prejudice against have been the ones to surround her with loving support.
More «Catholic priests are a bunch
of pedophiles» and «I'm
against pedophiles» posts by people who really know very little about pedophile statistics and just use these areticles to vent their anti-catholic
prejudices.
I will no longer temper my understanding
of truth in order to pretend that I have even a tiny smidgen
of respect for the appalling negativity that continues to emanate from religious circles where the church has for centuries conveniently perfumed its ongoing
prejudices against blacks, Jews, women and homosexual persons with what it assumes is «high - sounding, pious rhetoric.»
The comments only serve to highlight the amount
of prejudice and intolerance there is
against Christians.
prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed
against someone
of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.
It would appear that
prejudice is alive and well, in your mind at least, and it would seem that such
against Catholics in particular (and religionists in general) is a staple
of the modern FUBARLiberal class.
The Catholic Church is likely suffers the most
prejudice and hatred... a good sign that that the moral teaching
of the gospels that the Church continues to uphold is the truth
against which the world has always been opposed to... and that is why Jesus the Redeemer was crucified.
And couldn't your post have reflected your thoughts on the article itself instead
of promoting more
prejudice against atheists?
We come
prejudiced against the possibility
of demonstration, and are suspicious even where we find no flaw.
A lot
of people are commenting that this restaurant is not
prejudiced against gays.
Accused
of being «biased and
prejudiced against single sex adopters», Mr Page was sacked from the Magistracy by the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice, for serious misconduct.
Jason, It's scary how little you know about Christianity, especially when you are
prejudiced against 2 billion people because
of your «knowledge»
of what Christians believe.
The experts have stated that social science has shown that the concerns often raised about children
of lesbian and gay parents — concerns that are generally grounded in
prejudice against and stereotypes about gay people — are unfounded.
Were religious people promoting peace when they voted down gay marriage (a civil rights issue, opponents
of which will be viewed in the same light as the opponents
against civil rights in the 50s and 60s) You are just so comfortable in the majority, you can't see the
prejudice and bias you put on people that aren't like you.
The hypothesis
of «consumer terror» corresponds to the
prejudices of a middle class, which considers itself politically enlightened,
against the allegedly integrated proletariat, which has become petty - bourgeois and corrupt.
There is,
of course, always
prejudice against minorities on the part
of majorities; there are all kinds
of ways to put minorities in an inferior position.
Similarly, other religious traditions should be studied critically, but with no
prejudice against them because
of unfamiliar features
of their thought or practice.
Whereas Nordhaus and Tobin were obviously
prejudiced in favor
of continuing use
of GNP as the basic guide to policy, we were
prejudiced against this.
It is probable that some
prejudice against biblical criticism has been aroused among religious persons by this half - conscious association
of ideas.
Finding employment is often difficult because
of prejudice against those who have had major psychiatric problems.
In their reaction
against scientific scepticism, and scientific generalisation which were as sweeping and as
prejudiced as any theological temerity, they failed to distinguish the root causes
of the new unbelief from the arrogance
of the unbelievers, and met with equal contempt and malediction what could only be properly answered by the careful separation
of fact frompresumption and
prejudice on either side.
Land
of State sponsored
prejudice against Catholics, imprisonment without trial, Guilt before Innocence?
When Christian leaders blame LGBT people for natural disasters or warn they are going to «come after» Christians, it's hard not to be reminded
of what was often said about Jews in Europe to justify centuries
of prejudice against them.
Seemingly, despite progress made
against discrimination /
prejudice against external differences (colour / race / gender), it is still perfectly acceptable in some places to discriminate
against internal differences (beliefs / ideology / worldview / sexual orientation etc.) and to do so with such vehemence as to rival some
of those historical examples you cited.
But too often his
prejudices against those
of other cultures and races were not softened.
Declaring herself a person
of the left, she none theless has a sympathetic appreciation
of black intellectuals and opinion makers who now call themselves conservative, although they still wage war
against an older conservatism driven by racial and class
prejudices.
«The discussion
of socialist and Marxist attitudes to antisemitism... has often been confused by the erroneous and illogical assumption that left - wing parties are immunized
against racial, religious, or ethnic
prejudice.»
Precisely because we tend to be
prejudiced (what people politely call «having a pre-understanding») we have to be self - critical and take action
against the danger
of Scripture - twisting.
The common complaint
against him is that the greatness
of his style eclipsed the thinness
of his substance, and Adam Begley's new biography, full
of insightful and sympathetic detail, does little to dim such
prejudices.
I turn now, third and finally, to one additional line
of argument in attacking the
prejudice against administration; namely, a direct attack to expose the partly hidden motives
of the administration - hater.
There are too many people who have a
prejudice against President Obama as «no kind
of Christian.»
«Imaginings and resonances and pain and small longings and
prejudices,» she continues, still looking out at the sea, «meant nothing
against the resolute hardness
of the sea.
1) We truly live in a dumbed down culture, which is ignorant
of, and
prejudiced against, its own roots.
I think that segregating any group
of people, or maintaining a
prejudice against any group
of people is wrong, and I don't care if the Christians» deity called for it or not, or if the Bible called for it or not.
Most commentators either ignore Rosenzweig's lengthy account
of Judaism and Christianity over and
against Islam, which he calls the religious parody
of revelation (Pollock relegates this to a footnote), or they shake their finger at Rosenzweig like schoolmasters telling the class that he is
prejudiced.
«But if the «realism»
of my youth is dead, it has left not only a heritage
of general
prejudice against philosophy as such, but a partial heir.
Consideration
of examples such as this may help to dispel the
prejudice against the study
of manners within the formal curriculum, by showing that people in other well - developed and successful cultures have considered the refinement
of interpersonal relationships the central objective
of education.
It is
of course true that careful observation requires the use
of controls, the elimination
of the possibility
of social cuing, guarding
against uncritical projection
of the observer's
prejudices and presuppositions, etc. (MA 83 - 98).
And I believe that there is an equal balance
of atheists who are
prejudiced against religious people.
The study
of the structures
of religious groups should be carried on without
prejudice in favor
of one or the other principle
of organization, e.g., the charismatic as
against the hierarchical, or vice versa — and application
of the general methodological requirement discussed above.
The burden
of proving guilt «beyond a reasonable doubt» is far from absolute as a protection
against the accidents
of incriminating circumstance, the political ambitions
of some prosecutors, the potential for framed evidence, the passions
of communities, and the
prejudices and limitations
of jurors, judges and prosecutors alike.