CHAPTER FIVE

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CHAPTER FIVE

• Justice and Prejudice

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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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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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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