Awake Sept 8th on Prejudice

scotsman

I'm just having a look through this magazine with the usual question Will Prejudice Ever End? and it has a box identifying the following traits of prejudice:

In his book The Nature of Prejudice, Gordon W. Allport outlines five types of behaviour spawned by prejudice. A person who is prejudiced usually displays one or more of these.
1. Negative remarks. A person speaks disparagingly about the group he dislikes.
2. Avoidance. He shuns anyone who belongs to that group.
3. Discrimination. He exclude members of the maligned group from certian types of employment, places of residence, or social privileges,
4. Physical attack. He becomes party to violence, which is designed to intimidate the people he has come to hate.
5. Extermination. He participates in lynchings, massacres or extermination programs.

Well, the irony made me laugh.

Scully

There are none so blind than those who will not see....

Love, Scully

LittleToe

Scotsman:Thanks, for that. I'm grinning ear to ear.

xjw_b12

"he who points the finger, has 4 pointing back at him"

Could we call JWs bigots?

Carmel

xjw, how is that? do you point with your thumb???

carmel of the "only has four fingers on one hand" class

Rafter and the straw. But really I'm sure it's justified when they do it..afterall they are the "loving" organization from god leading the poor lost sheep..And I mean they would see the negative remarks as merely pointing out the truth.

dh

but jehovah's people are not prejudice. pfffff, talk about blindness.

JT

I have to give jw credit in this area, in fact this is one of the reason my mom became a jw- the jw had the best handle on religion and race that we ever saw- being from the sticks of NC that was what impressed alot of black folks, not too many white were impressed with going to church with black folks on sunday

it has often been said that 11 on sunday is the most racially segregated time in the USA-

we had a2 baptist churches in my little town, a white and black one, THEY WOULD NEVER SET foot in each others church-

we we started to attend the hall it was all black and 6months later the congo in NC were told to intergrete

it was great for the black jw, since we were meeting in a little rundown store front, while the white bro had a nice parking lot, beautiful building with flowers and shade trees and most importantly Air Conditioning, so we were happy a mug- but for the white bro it was like pulling teeth

in fact 2 elders resigned, one was reported to have said, no little black boy is going to be sitting by my daughter next thing they will want to be marrying interacially

point is- wt does have a better grip on racial issues than many large groups with millions of members

just my two, but then again the Salvation Army has a better grip on charity than many groups-

give credit where deserved and hold thier feet to the fire where deserved

smile

jgnat

Sure, there may not be much prejudice amongst the races in the Watchtower society, but they are bigots nonetheless. They are bigoted against "Christendom" first, and "Worldly Folk" second.

recoveringjw

drip....drip....drip.....drip....drip

That is the irony dripping off that article.

B