Prejudice and Stupidity

Prejudice and stupidity are related in four ways.

1. Lack of context. People who are prejudiced refuse to understand the many different factors that combine to make some groups of people different from other groups of people.

2. Lack of perspective. People who are prejudiced think that the slightest inconveniences or absurdities that affect them are great injustices, while serious oppression of people who are not like them are either indifferent or good.

3. Lack of restraint. People who are prejudiced start with the idea that some groups are different from other groups, and then move to the idea that some groups are better than other groups, and then move to the idea that being in one group is not wrong like being in another group, and then move to the idea that it is right to want to hurt people in the other group.

4. Lack of creativity. People who are prejudiced are not easily able to interact with people who are different from them.