Sentences with phrase «against the prejudices of»

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.