I just looked up the term prejudice in my Oxford English Mini Dictionary and found, to my amazement, that ‘prejudice’ is defined as being negative, and I quote, “n. 1. an opinion NOT based on reason or experience. 2. DISLIKE or UNFAIR behaviour based on such opinions. v. 1. give rise to prejudice in. 2. cause HARM to”. Surely these definitions are prejudice to the word prejudice as the definitions only state the negative side? For example, why can’t a prejudice be based reason and experience? This dictionary appears to be prejudice in its defining of the word!
Another example, as Murray himself has pointed out in the past, is ‘discrimination.’ The term ‘discrimination’ traditionally meant ‘discernment,’ and the capacity to choose between two or more practical or theoretical possibilities. Later on, the term came to be used for negative and inauthentic usages of this capacity, e.g. signs in pubs saying ‘No dogs, blacks or Irishmen.’ Murray has said that if anything, assuming ALL people in a group are ‘bad’ without good cause is the OPPOSITE of ‘discrimination’ in its original, classical sense; as it is surely the OPPOSITE of ‘discernment’ to make irrationally sweeping, negative assumptions about everyone in a large group of people, and to act in accordance with such false assumptions.
authorjf
3 years ago
It was a misspelling. The correct term is ‘Chernobyl Virus,’ although this time around, the Chernobyl will be even MORE destructive to the totalitarian dictatorship in question! Our old friend the Chairman said ‘a single spark can start a prairie fire.’ Little did he know he was writing the epitaph of his own barbaric, materialistic, ultra-secularist regime.
denneynagayama
4 years ago
Really, what is Murray wittering on about here? Filler, 1400 words, cheque – ta, very much.
I just looked up the term prejudice in my Oxford English Mini Dictionary and found, to my amazement, that ‘prejudice’ is defined as being negative, and I quote,
“n. 1. an opinion NOT based on reason or experience. 2. DISLIKE or UNFAIR behaviour based on such opinions. v. 1. give rise to prejudice in. 2. cause HARM to”.
Surely these definitions are prejudice to the word prejudice as the definitions only state the negative side?
For example, why can’t a prejudice be based reason and experience?
This dictionary appears to be prejudice in its defining of the word!
Another example, as Murray himself has pointed out in the past, is ‘discrimination.’ The term ‘discrimination’ traditionally meant ‘discernment,’ and the capacity to choose between two or more practical or theoretical possibilities. Later on, the term came to be used for negative and inauthentic usages of this capacity, e.g. signs in pubs saying ‘No dogs, blacks or Irishmen.’ Murray has said that if anything, assuming ALL people in a group are ‘bad’ without good cause is the OPPOSITE of ‘discrimination’ in its original, classical sense; as it is surely the OPPOSITE of ‘discernment’ to make irrationally sweeping, negative assumptions about everyone in a large group of people, and to act in accordance with such false assumptions.
It was a misspelling. The correct term is ‘Chernobyl Virus,’ although this time around, the Chernobyl will be even MORE destructive to the totalitarian dictatorship in question! Our old friend the Chairman said ‘a single spark can start a prairie fire.’ Little did he know he was writing the epitaph of his own barbaric, materialistic, ultra-secularist regime.
Really, what is Murray wittering on about here? Filler, 1400 words, cheque – ta, very much.