Sociology / Unit 7 Soc 1057 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"Prejudice and Discrimination Are the Same Thing"
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The idea
Treating prejudice and discrimination as one thing collapses attitude into action, which hides the case of an unprejudiced person who still discriminates unthinkingly.
In practice
A content moderator who holds no personal bias can still flag the same accounts more often, following a filter they never examined.
Where people slip
The four combinations of attitude and action are all real and are not reducible to two.
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