That's where I disagree. I don't think there's anything wrong with prejudice.
There's a big difference between prejudice, which is pre-judging someone or something based on an arbitrary characteristic, and discrimination, which actually disadvantages those being prejudged. These words are used so interchangeably tbat you could likely find definitions for each that overlapped each other, but there is a distinction for me between believing certain types of things and people will follow predictable patterns based on previous experiences with those types of things or people (natural human behavior), and discrimination, which is using that belief in such a way that it hurts someone else.
To build a case that this is not just prejudice (which I think is okay) and actual discrimination, you'd have to demonstrate disadvantage.
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