Racism Prejudice and Bigotry

     The trifecta of intolerance is racism, prejudice, and bigotry, but if you're even one of them you are morally reprehensible. Everyone is supposed to agree on that, right? But people stand by and allow bigotry, prejudice and racism to go unchecked, and there are others who endorse them because they're also bigots.

     Racism is easy to understand, racism is being prejudiced against somebody because of their race, or color of their skin, prejudice is the broader term that encompasses all other reasons to be nasty to any identifiable group, say due to sexual orientation or religion, and a bigot is, "a person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, especially one who is prejudiced against or antagonistic toward a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group."

     Simply being born in another country exposes a person to the culture, morals and religions of that country, and to their religious and cultural intolerances, and if they immigrate to America, they often bring their irrational bigotry, prejudice and racism to the United States. A melting pot of cultures does not have to be a melting pot of bigotry and prejudice. The sad thing is that it is nearly impossible to fix ignorant bigots, whether they are foreign born or domestic bigots, it is ingrained, so all you can do is keep your children away from all bigots, even family members, so that it doesn't rub off on the next generation.

     If you agree with the expression, "all blank are bad." (Fill in the blank with any group that you think fits.) Then you are a bigot, and America breeds bigots due to our unique binary system of political capitalism, in which, to support large corporations American's choices are largely Coke or Pepsi, and Democrat or Republican. Edward Bernays, the father of propaganda, said that by providing binary choices and having effective advertising, America would provide "psychic ease" to its programmed citizens by removing the stress of having to make their own choices.

     Most of advertising is just brand reinforcement. The entire news establishment has been split into Democrat and Republican leaning stations, with over 95% of all media being Democrat leaning, likely because the vast majority of Christians identify as Republicans so they have religion and God on their side, while the vast majority of both Atheists and college graduates are Democrats that apparently need constant propaganda just to compete with Christianity. The news you watch programs you to be affiliated with that party, so if you watch ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, or MSNBC you watch brand reinforcement programming for Democrats, and if you watch Fox News you watch brand reinforcement programming for Republicans.

     And most people have already chosen, in almost all cases a household will have chosen whether or not they use Coca-Cola or Pepsi, Hellman's/Best Foods mayonnaise or Miracle Whip, Apple or Android, and if they vote Democrat or vote Republican. This provides psychic ease, but an unfortunate side effect is that the current level of political discourse has led the majority of Democrats to think that the majority of Republicans are bad. Literally they think they're unintelligent and immoral, which makes Democrats bigots against Republicans. Also the majority of Republicans think that the majority of Democrats are unintelligent and immoral, making most Republicans bigots against Democrats.