1. CHAPTER FIVE
Justice and Prejudice

2. Go Worship With Your “Own” People
We are called to treat all people with respect and as if they were our sisters or brothers.
Unfortunately, this doesn’t always occur. Take Mohandas Gandhi, for example.
Ghandi, a Hindu, was interested in the Christian church and was discriminated against when he tried to enter the sanctuary in a Christian church. He was told to go worship with his “own” people.
How did Christians discriminate against Ghandi? What kind of prejudice did he encounter?

3. Real-Life Prejudice Did you know... According to Tolerance.org:
Every hour someone commits a hate crime
Every day at least 8 blacks, 3 whites, 3 gays, 3 Jews, and 1 Latino become hate crime victims
Every week a cross is burned

4. Real-Life Prejudice What is Prejudice?
1. Favorable or unfavorable feeling toward a person, place, or thing, prior to, or not based on, actual fact
2. A prejudgment based on insufficient data

5. Real-Life Prejudice Why? Did you Know... Negative prejudice is sinful.
Threatens the rights of people
Illogical, exhibits stereotypical thinking
A fault when it resists new information
Did you Know...
Negative prejudice is sinful.
Why?
Stereotypes: types of prejudice that are oversimplified generalizations about some aspect of reality

6. Stages of Prejudice Antilocution – speaking against
Extermination – killing the undesirable person or group
Physical attack – violence and hate crimes
Discrimination – harmful actions against disliked persons
Avoidance – avoiding members of a disliked group
Antilocution – speaking against

7. Stages of Prejudice Types of discrimination
1. Sexism – misguided belief that one sex is superior to the other by the nature of things.
Examples of sexism
In no country in today’s world are women treated as well as men
Greater poverty in households headed by women
Women suffer from “glass ceiling” effect
Some countries restrict the political participation of women
Women condemned to unending menial labor
Women victimized by men through violence

8. Stages of Prejudice Types of discrimination
2. Ageism: prejudice exhibited against older people
Examples of ageism
More and more elderly are living in poverty
Stability of Social Security and Medicare are of great concern as more people retire
The move to legalize euthanasia is an attempt to remove sick elderly persons seen as a burden

9. Stages of Prejudice Types of extermination: 1. Assassinations
2. Lynchings
3. Massacres
4. Terrorist bombings
5. Genocide
Example: The Holocaust
- Resulted from anti-semitism: prejudice against the Jewish people

10. Stages of Prejudice Nine ways you can fight prejudice:
1. Pray for your conversion
2. Learn to celebrate differences
3. Look for inequalities in your school, work place, and parish
4. Avoid racial stereotypes, jokes, slurs
5. Refuse to participate in any verbal attacks on homosexual persons
6. Treat those with disabilities as unique individuals
7. Visit a nursing home with some friends
8. Avoid sexist comments
9. Include rather than exclude

11. Attempting to Explain Prejudice
. Why do people hold on to their prejudices?
. People are too lazy to think
. Scapegoats are an easy way to deal with negative emotions
. Prejudice makes people feel superior
. Prejudice thrives because it pays both psychologically and financially
. What are some characteristics of people who are prejudiced?
. Difficulty dealing with ambiguity
. Low self-esteem
. Authority-oriented

12. Attempting to Explain Prejudice
The home is the central school for learning prejudice
Prejudice is learned
Sexism is key in forming early prejudices

13. Attempting to Explain Prejudice
Ways to overcome prejudice:
Participate in programs that put self in the shoes of others
Work with different groups
Be aware that prejudice is inconsistent with one’s values, attitudes and behaviors
Establish laws/rules that require the fair treatment of others

14. Vocabulary prejudice stereotypes antilocution Discrimination sexism
feminism
patriarchy
ageism
anti-Semitism
scapegoating