> But such practice is widespread in some Christian and Jewish sects! I'm not making stuff up. I agree, and I think it counts against them to the rest of us. F

> But such practice is widespread in some Christian and Jewish sects! I'm not making stuff up. I agree, and I think it counts against them to the rest of us. For example, many of us do not think highly at all about cultish Christian sects. > Because defending the disparity is defending racism. Indeed. What I'm trying to do here is model how the notion can come about, simply by being ignorant and not by any directed racist thought against any one group. That is, even if the only discrimination we receive from our environment about the various communities were our frequency of interaction with these respective due to proximity and integration, we are inclined to this notion. The post I was responding to was in general attitudes for the general population; and I assume that people are generally ignorant about religious communities in their own country and in other countries. Hence how this ignorance leads reasonably to a notion. In addition, I don't think it is necessarily racist to have such an opinion, especially if one also understands that it is likely to be horribly misinformed and comes from ignorance. It becomes racist only if you choose to act on the notion, or communicate it without also communicating that the opinion comes from ignorance. Rather, the responsible thing to do is to perform adequate due diligence to form an educated opinion on it once your opinion on the matter becomes of importance to anything.