Is it prejudice or is it preference? How do you know which is which? Well, that is a very simple question to answer, as I will demonstrate in the following podcast. In the year 2008, distinguishing between the two was decidedly less difficult. Having entire news segments dedicated to defining what was and was not prejudice simply did not exist back then. You could not find a respectable news station that would waste time on such an infantile issue as what the definition of a word was. Today we have regressed quite a bit in that department. Due to the right's redefinition of words like "racism" and "prejudice", many people are now confused as to exactly what words like prejudice mean, which was always the right's goal. If the right controls the narrative on what is and is not prejudice then ultimately nothing will be considered prejudice and you better believe that is the endgame for them. Silly democrats who continue to work together with people who are actively trying to erode the definition of civility do nothing more than add to the problem; as usual, such democrats have nothing more than pretty words to offer. Van Jones and Don Lemon crying on the news about racial inequality does absolutely nothing other than distract from the real problem at hand, which is the erosion of civil rights. Begging republicans and wealthy businessmen for "a place at the table" has never worked and never will work, but this false narrative is confusing people into thinking that all they need is a pat on the back and a new holiday to get ahead in the world. Bullshit. The last time the government gave black people a federal holiday, they so besmirched the man it was named after, Martin Luther King Jr, that they even went as far as to remove his name from various streets that were predominantly black. So, you may be impressed by such hollow actions, but I certainly am not. So what is prejudice anyway? Where does it come from and how should we react to it? In order to tackle this issue, it is important to note the glaring difference between prejudice and preference because they two are complete opposites. Your preferences are perfectly valid and most likely based on real life concerns and dangers. Prejudice, on the other hand, is an outright rejection of reality. A prejudice person sees whatever type of person as a threat and has no good reason to feel that way. This is one of the reasons you will often hear me call the entertainment industry as a whole prejudice because they have the means to cast people of color and yet consistently choose not to. Do they have a good reason for this? No. Of course they believe that they do, but belief has nothing to do with reality. If you are in no danger then you have no need to act as if you are. You often hear people who are prejudice say things like "that would not work for that period" or "that is not historically accurate"; they do this because they have been taught incorrect versions of history or because they tend to prefer the western European narrative of history. But is this a valid preference or an arrogant prejudice? Consider the conversations I have had with you in other episodes about western European historians going out of their way to make it so that real history stays out of the textbooks so their European children are proud of their idiocy. Of course this is prejudice. What good reason do you have to lie to your own goddamn children other than your own inflated ego? Why should the European narrative that states that black people are somehow luck to be in a nation that did not even recognize black independence from slavery until 150 years after the fact? There is nothing reasonable going on here at all and so we continue to fight against ill informed prejudice. We will not be beat back from this sacred objective by a bunch of moderates in fancy suits because we are not congress and have not obligation to billionaires. Prejudice is not preference, not matter what the right says.