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Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
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“Prejudices are inherently self-justifying.”
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“... a prejudice is a belief system, not a knowledge system ...”
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“Children are 'childish,' which is a negative adjective marking something an adult should not be. Being a grown-up is imagined as separating from what is childish by denigrating it and calling it shameful.”
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“People who worship a single god find it difficult to imagine that their one god will not favor one people — themselves.”