Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Why Liberal Zionists Won't Join BDS [View all]Shaktimaan
(5,397 posts)Why does that make it drivel? Because kluxers are bad? So what?
If I said that all KKK members would support the lynching of Obama, or even just that they don't decry the killing of convicted black criminals, that would be an example of bigotry. For one thing, we have no idea that it's true. I'm sure they're both beliefs held by a good percentage of KKK members. But all of them? No one can say that.
But what if I said that all KKK members think the Jews hold too much power in American politics? Aka: a statement we know to be fairly accurate since it's one of that group's key platforms. Guess what? It's STILL bigotry.
Whenever you unfailingly cleave to a prejudice, ascribing monolithic opinions to individual members of a group, you are actively engaging in prejudicial behavior aka: bigotry. Cut and dry. Whether your prejudicial beliefs happen to be true or not is entirely irrelevant to the fact that they're bigoted. Accurate prejudice is prejudice all the same.