Word Creation Wednesday...

This week's word...

"prejudignorance" - A term describing the fact that those we are most prejudiced against are often those that we are the most ignorant about. This runs deeper than just racism. Non-racist people often hold subtle prejudices against people for reasons that fail to make sense. We jump to faulty conclusions when we make judgments about the nature of a person with whom we've never had a face to face conversation. The greatest contributor to prejudice of any kind is a refusal to actually get to know the other and let the other get to know us.