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Post by goldelox on Feb 24, 2014 9:10:10 GMT
I mean in smaller ways.
Honestly.....
Do you dislike Chris Evans, because he's a red head?
Would you like Andy Murray more if he was English?
Do you like one particular accent and dislike another?
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Post by jimshoo on Feb 24, 2014 9:53:55 GMT
My Dad was a Scot and was ginger and I like a Scottish accent, one I can understand.
Other than that I'm easy.
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Post by spot on Feb 24, 2014 11:19:43 GMT
My disdain for Mr Evans has nothing to do with his hair colour - I had no idea has ginger hair, he doesn't appear to have as far as I recall. I'm delighted the Scots have ambassadors as charming and talented as Mr Murray.
I can recall being prejudiced as a teenager but it was a very long time ago and being at a single-sex fifth-rate whites-only grammar school didn't help in the slightest. Catholics, West Indians and Commies would have been high on the tribal list of outcasts.
What does one call a prejudice against something, as opposed to someone? Especially when the logical grounds for it are overwhelming? I'm thinking of US Foreign Policy. The ingrained immediate disapproval feels exactly like prejudice used to and yet it's socially acceptable. I'd be horrified to think I was prejudiced instead of simply opposed to. I do note, though, that the same feeling still extends to categories of people - members of the current Cabinet or ex-editors of the defunct NOTW spring to mind.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2014 12:05:21 GMT
I mean in smaller ways. Honestly..... Do you dislike Chris Evans, because he's a red head? Would you like Andy Murray more if he was English? Do you like one particular accent and dislike another? I neither like or dislike Chris Evans - I dont know him and have never met him. I would not like Andy Murray ay more if he was Welsh French or from the planet Zog. I like accents, but the one thing that really pisses me off is people of whatever accent when they are inarticulate. We encounter it when being served in shops, people telephoning the office and everywhere. They almost machine gun you with a tirade of incomprehensible garbage. |
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Post by ARENA on Feb 24, 2014 12:10:38 GMT
. What does one call a prejudice against something, as opposed to someone. A prejudice means, to pre-judge that which you do not know. EG I don't like Guinness, that's why I've never tried it. If something is intrinsicly bad, in your experience, then it is dislike. PS like the avatar  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2014 12:28:28 GMT
Thanks for the crystal clear definition Arena.
I don't think I am prejudiced. There are things I would not do as I would find them distasteful, but I will try most things then make a judgement.
However one could say that one is prejudiced against people who snort cocaine without trying it for yourself.
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Post by ARENA on Feb 24, 2014 13:16:12 GMT
I don't think I would use the term 'prejudiced',JJ.
I heartily agree that is wrong on several levels and would like to see an end to it.
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Post by scorp on Feb 24, 2014 13:43:01 GMT
Cocaine? I have always politely declined it, but I don't think it's particularly harmful. No worse than booze, which I happily slurp down.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2014 14:02:40 GMT
Cocaine? I have always politely declined it, but I don't think it's particularly harmful. No worse than booze, which I happily slurp down. On that we will agree to disagree my friend. But what I find even more distasteful is that our police are happy to nail the young in many areas for the posession of a little pot but totally ignore some of the upmarket bars I know where almost everyone has white powder in their nostrils. Call me a cynic, but could it be that one tends to be the drug of the rich, and the other of the street? |
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Post by scorp on Feb 24, 2014 14:10:39 GMT
It's funny about grass - governments keep commissioning studies and reports, which all say the same thing - they keep on commissioning hoping to get the result they've already made their minds they want - and until they do they'll keep ignoring the results.
The Police usually do what they are ordered to do, whether it makes them happy or not.
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