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Prejudice

Not liking someone because they're different from you.
I'm prejudice against her, because she's different from me.
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Prejudice

unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes, especially of a hostile nature, regarding an ethnic, racial, social, or religious group.
His honesty and sincerity prejudiced us in his favor.
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Prejudice

Hating/disliking a group of people for no good reason.

Example: racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableist, etc
Prejudice Joe: hey, I hate black people because they’re black.
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Prejudice

A prejudgment either being positive or negative
Kim:I have a conception that African Americans are extremely Athletic

Jim:You are very Prejudiced you Bigot,All groups want is to be seen as complex, multifaceted, and human
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Atheist Prejudice

A form of atheist bigotry characterized by pre‑judging individuals based on their religious, spiritual, or metaphysical affiliations, often assuming they are intellectually deficient, emotionally weak, or morally compromised. It manifests in dismissive labels (“she’s a woo‑woo,” “he’s a Bible thumper”), in assumptions tExample: “When she mentioned she practiced meditation rooted in Buddhist tradition, he immediately dismissed her professional competence—atheist prejudice, assuming spirituality precluded intelligence.”hat believers cannot be scientists or critical thinkers, and in the automatic attribution of any disagreement to the other’s “irrationality.” Atheist prejudice operates as a cognitive shortcut that allows the prejudiced person to avoid engaging with the actual person and their views.
Example: “When she mentioned she practiced meditation rooted in Buddhist tradition, he immediately dismissed her professional competence—atheist prejudice, assuming spirituality precluded intelligence.”
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Proof Prejudice

A milder but still harmful form of Proof Bigotry, characterized by a reflexive tendency to dismiss any claim that is not accompanied by “proof” as defined by the prejudiced person, without examining whether proof is needed or what form it might take. Proof prejudice operates as a cognitive shortcut: if the speaker cannot immediately produce the type of evidence demanded, their entire position is automatically invalid. Unlike proof bigotry, it may not be accompanied by active harassment, but it still closes down inquiry and silences perspectives that do not conform to a narrow evidentiary standard.
Example: “When she mentioned her grandmother’s herbal remedies, he scoffed ‘prove it works.’ He didn’t ask about context or tradition—proof prejudice, dismissing non‑Western knowledge for failing a test it was never designed to pass.”
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Evidence Prejudice

The cognitive bias underlying Evidence Bigotry: a reflexive dismissal of any claim not accompanied by evidence in the form preferred by the prejudiced person, combined with a willingness to attribute the lack of such evidence to the claimant’s intellectual or mental deficiency. Evidence prejudice often operates automatically, without conscious malice—but its effects are silencing. It treats absence of double‑blind studies as proof of fraud, and it equates “not yet measured” with “unreal.” It is especially common in debates about spirituality, indigenous knowledge, and experiential claims.
Example: “He heard ‘energy healing’ and immediately said ‘that’s pseudoscience, there’s no evidence.’ He never asked what kind of evidence might be appropriate—evidence prejudice, dismissing a practice because it didn’t fit his evidentiary template.”
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