CHAPTER FIVE

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CHAPTER FIVE

• Justice and Prejudice

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What do you think?

• Take the following statements and mark with P
  for prejudicial or N for nonprejudicial or ?
  for dont know.
• Note at the bottom your reasons for answering the
  way you did.
• Break up in Groups and create more expressions
  indicating prejudicial statements

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Questions

• Could you prove any these statements?
• How do you define equality in statement 5?
• In your opinion, which people are the greatest
  victims of prejudice today and why?

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Go Worship With Your Own People

• We are called to treat all people with respect
  and as if they were our sisters or brothers.
• Unfortunately, this doesnt always occur. Take
  Mohandas Gandhi, for example.
• Ghandi, a Hindu, was interested in the Christian
  church and was discriminated against when he
  tried to enter the sanctuary in a Christian
  church. He was told to go worship with his own
  people.
• How did Christians discriminate against Ghandi?
  What kind of prejudice did he
  encounter?

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Real-Life Prejudice
Did you know...

• According to Tolerance.org
• Every hour someone commits a hate crime
• Every day at least 8 blacks, 3 whites, 3 gays, 3
  Jews, and 1 Latino become hate crime victims
• Every week a cross is burned

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Real-Life Prejudice
What is Prejudice?
1. Favorable or unfavorable feeling toward a
person, place, or thing, prior to, or not based
on, actual fact 2. A prejudgment based on
insufficient data
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Real-Life Prejudice
Threatens the rights of people Illogical,
exhibits stereotypical thinking A fault when it
resists new information

• Did you Know...
• Negative prejudice is sinful.
• Why?

• Stereotypes types of prejudice that are
  oversimplified generalizations about some aspect
  of reality

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Definition of a Bigot

• Prejudiced people who out of pride and
  stubbornness hold on to their beliefs and
  erroneous opinions contrary to evidence. They
  neither listen to nor consider the views of
  others. They have closed minds and act out of
  sinfulness.

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Exercise in Stereotypes

• Why do people hold these opinions about these
  groups?
• Develop a list of at least 5 stereotypes for each
  of the following groups.

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Bishops Statement on Homosexualtiy

• There seems to be no single cause of homosexual
  orientation.are multiple factorsgenetic,
  hormonal, psychologicalsexual orientation is
  experienced as a given, not as something freely
  chosensexual orientation cannot be considered
  sinful, for morality presumes the freedom of
  choice.

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Stages of Prejudice
Extermination killing the undesirable
person or group
Physical attack violence and hate crimes
Discrimination harmful actions against
disliked persons
Avoidance avoiding members of a disliked group
Antilocution speaking against
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Stages of Prejudice

• Types of discrimination
• 1. Sexism misguided belief that one sex is
  superior to the other by the nature of things.

• Examples of sexism
• In no country in todays world are women treated
  as well as men
• Greater poverty in households headed by women
• Women suffer from glass ceiling effect
• Some countries restrict the political
  participation of women
• Women condemned to unending menial labor
• Women victimized by men through violence

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Stages of Prejudice

• Types of discrimination
• 2. Ageism prejudice exhibited against older
  people
• Examples of ageism
• More and more elderly are living in poverty
• Stability of Social Security and Medicare are of
  great concern as more people retire
• The move to legalize euthanasia is an attempt to
  remove sick elderly persons seen as a burden

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Stages of Prejudice

• Types of extermination
• 1. Assassinations
• 2. Lynchings
• 3. Massacres
• 4. Terrorist bombings
• 5. Genocide
• Example The Holocaust
• - Resulted from anti-semitism prejudice
  against the Jewish people

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Pastor Neimoeller quote

• First they came for the Jews and I did not speak
  outbecause I was not a Jew. Then they came for
  the Communists and I did not speak outbecause I
  was not a Communist. Then they came for the
  trade unionists and I did not speak outbecause I
  was not a trade unionist. Then they came for
  meand there was no on left to speak out for me.

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Stages of Prejudice

• Nine ways you can fight prejudice
• 1. Pray for your conversion
• 2. Learn to celebrate differences
• 3. Look for inequalities in your school, work
  place, and parish
• 4. Avoid racial stereotypes, jokes, slurs
• 5. Refuse to participate in any verbal attacks on
  homosexual persons
• 6. Treat those with disabilities as unique
  individuals
• 7. Visit a nursing home with some friends
• 8. Avoid sexist comments
• 9. Include rather than exclude

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Attempting to Explain Prejudice

• . Why do people hold on to their prejudices?
• . People are too lazy to think
• . Scapegoats are an easy way to deal with
  negative emotions
• . Prejudice makes people feel superior
• . Prejudice thrives because it pays both
  psychologically and financially

• . What are some characteristics of people who are
  prejudiced?
• . Difficulty dealing with ambiguity
• . Low self-esteem
• . Authority-oriented

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Attempting to Explain Prejudice
The home is the central school for learning
prejudice
Prejudice is learned
Sexism is key in forming early prejudices
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Attempting to Explain Prejudice

• Ways to overcome prejudice

Participate in programs that put self in the
shoes of others
Work with different groups
Establish laws/rules that require the fair
treatment of others
Be aware that prejudice is inconsistent with
ones values, attitudes and behaviors
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Vocabulary

• prejudice
• stereotypes
• antilocution
• Discrimination
• sexism
• feminism
• patriarchy
• ageism
• anti-Semitism
• scapegoating