[lit-ideas] Re: Muslim Prejudice

  • From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:00:04 -0500

Judith's prejudice was that she thought I was implying that she "was using 'prejudice' in [an exclusively] derogatory sense."


Attention, Borges' ghost.

Prejudice is, among other things,

* an intellectual prison one can escape through a library,
* a useful cognitive shortcut,
* an inherited belief system.
* a source of social injustice,
* a set of views that derive from the observed behaviors of others, and * a filter that interprets the observed behaviors of others.


A true story about Muslim prejudice: twenty doctors in a hospital. The Christian doctors must sometimes work on Christmas or Easter and do so without question. The Jewish doctors also work without question on their holidays if they must.

On the other hand, the Muslim doctors categorically demand Ramadan off, and their intense demand leads into confrontation with the other doctors, who also have lives and religions. The ferocity of the Muslim demand implies to the non-Muslims that they don't matter.

Administration must intervene and force the Muslim doctors to choose between practicing in the US or taking Ramadan off. The Muslim doctors, because they prefer to live in the US rather than in Pakistan and Syria, work on Ramadan.

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