Reply #124: it's not too far from prejudice [View All]

unless it's correct.

We get together here on DU with our homies and constantly berate the general public (especially the part that is not 100% with us) for being stupid and prejudiced and ignorant and mean. Maybe when we talk to one of them we don't directly openly insult them, but you cannot really blame them if they detect an attitude that really is there.

To fix it, we need a genuine humility and also affection for the ordinary working person. I have great respect for a person who works hard, who is honest, and generous, and helpful, and kind, irregardless of his/her intelligence or book-larning. Like in "The Breakfast Club" often the math whiz has to admit he is not very good at making lamps (although maybe some are). Even if a person is only 20% decent, it is still a better thing to appeal to their sense of decency then to find a part of somebody which is indecent and turn that into their defining characteristic.