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Results of two independent factor analyses of the survey responses of more than 2000 English and American citizens parallel these findings (19,33):- fear and exclusion: persons with severe mental illness should be feared and, therefore, be kept out of most communities;- authoritarianism: persons with severe mental illness are irresponsible, so life decisions should be made by others;- benevolence: persons with severe mental illness are childlike and need to be cared for."World Psychiatry. 2002 Feb; 1(1): 16–20.PMCID: PMC1489832Understanding the impact of stigma on people with mental illnessPATRICK W CORRIGAN and AMY C WATSON

Patrick W. Corrigan

Several themes describe misconceptions about mental illness and corresponding stigmatizing attitudes. Media analyses of film and print have identified three: people with mental illness are homicidal maniacs who need to be feared; they have childlike perceptions of the world that should be marveled; or they are responsible for their illness because they have weak character (29-32)."World Psychiatry. 2002 Feb; 1(1): 16–20.PMCID: PMC1489832Understanding the impact of stigma on people with mental illnessPATRICK W CORRIGAN and AMY C WATSON

Patrick W. Corrigan

No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness.

Elyn R. Saks

An encounter with God demands a response. An encounter with Satan demands your God's response.

Shannon L. Alder

Do you suffer fromcallous-narrow-minded biases?I’m humanely secondhand embarrassed for you.

JT Sanz

A writer at the time said, "Lincoln means to sink the man in the public officer.

Harold Holzer

With the rationalization of culture, and the corresponding disenchantment of religious ideas and beliefs, the modern world is ordered increasingly upon instrumentally rational grounds, and hence organizes itself less and less according to value-rational principles. This leads in turn to a world in which social action is separated increasingly from the sphere of (ethical) meaning, as particular (often technical) means are employed to realize specific ends regardless of the ethical significance or meaning of such action.

Nicholas Gane

an unintentionally hilarious 84 percent of users answer this match question…Would you consider dating someone who has a vocalized a strong negative bias toward a certain race of people? In the absolute negative (choosing “No” over “Yes” and “It Depends”. In light of the previous data, that means 84 percent of people on OKCupid would not consider dating someone on OKCupid.

Christian Rudder

A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have more responsibility, rather than less.

C.P. Snow

Holding one's self responsible is a critical feature in stigma and in the generation of shame since violation of standards, rules, and goals are insufficient in its elicitation unless responsibility can be placed on the self. Stigma may differ from other elicitors of shame and guilt, in part because it is a social appearance factor. The degree to which the stigma is socially apparent is the degree to which one must negotiate the issue of blame, not only for one's self but between one's self and the other who is witness to the stigma. Stigmatization is a much more powerful elicitor of shame and guilt in that it requires a negotiation not only between one's self and one's attributions, but between one's self and the attributions of others.

Michael Lewis

Racism is, among other things, the unearned skepticism of one group of humans joined to the unearned sympathy for another.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

People often call fighting racism being 'PC' when they don't want to confront their own prejudice

DaShanne Stokes

Tolerance of intolerance enables oppression.

DaShanne Stokes

Reducing a group to a slur or stereotype reduces us all.

DaShanne Stokes

Urging an organization to be inclusive is not an attack. It's progress.

DaShanne Stokes

Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon.

DaShanne Stokes

Never be content to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon. Your rights could be next.

DaShanne Stokes

Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again.

DaShanne Stokes

The minute we look away, the minute we stop fighting back, that's the minute bigotry wins.

DaShanne Stokes

Bigotry is based on deception, of oneself and of others.

DaShanne Stokes

It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others.

DaShanne Stokes

Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all.

DaShanne Stokes

One paper boasted that its subscription and advertising numbers proved that America did not need the social change it rival paper advocated.

Harold Holzer

This hinted at something that no one had ever suspected -- that the brain tracks moving things more easily that still things. We have a built-in bias toward detecting action. Why? Because it's probably more critical for animals to spot moving things (predators, prey, falling trees) than static things, which can wait. In fact, our vision is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all. To see something stationary, our brains have to scribble our eyes subtly over its surface. Experiments have even proven that if you artificially stabilize an image on the retina with a combination of special contact lenses and microelectronics, the image will vanish.

Sam Kean

For many, what they see on television becomes more true than what they see with their eyes in the external world. But this is not so, for one must never forget that every television and has been edited. The viewer does not see the event. He sees in edited form of the event. It is not the event which is seen, but an edited symbol or an edited image of the event. An aura and illusion of objectivity and truth is built up, which could not be totally the case, even if the people shooting the film were completely neutral.

Francis A.Schaeffer

When we have a narrative in mind, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it.

Nicholas Kristof

The author found participants in a study able to come up with more reasons to support their position but not anymore likely to change their minds based on contradictory evidence. In effect, they enlist their IQ on behalf of their instincts.

Jonathan Haidt

We all see only that which we are trained to see.

Robert Anton Wilson

What I find predictable is crazy people's ability to predict that unpredictable people can be predicted by their consistent unpredictable behavior, thus making all crazy people predictable when the world says they are unpredictable. Therefore, I must be “right” because I can predict crazy because I have been trained in the unpredictable nature of consistent craziness because I am crazy.

Shannon L. Alder

A mentoring nurse to new doctors: "Check your own pulse first.

Code Black

Bigotry and sexism destroy the unity needed for a nation to live.

DaShanne Stokes

It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverers.

John Reader

Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The ego puts its own interest first and twists every argument, word, even fact to suit that interest.

Paul Brunton

It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to search for prejudices among the beliefs and values we hold.

Peter Singer

He knew more about the death of Lula Landry than he had ever meant or wanted to know; the same would be true of virtually any sentient being in Britain. Bombarded with the story, you grew interested against your will, and before you knew it, you were so well informed, so opinionated about the facts of the case, you would have been unfit to sit on a jury.

Robert Galbraith

Facts and values are entangled in science. It's not because scientists are biased, not because they are partial or influenced by other kinds of interests, but because of a commitment to reason, consistency, coherence, plausibility and replicability. These are value commitments.

Alva Noë

There is nothing 'honorable' or 'reasonable' in giving a pass to those who want to discriminate.

DaShanne Stokes

The world is a place of constant change. If we are open and ready to consider everything while remaining unbiased, we will be ready to accept these changes and utilize them to improve our lives.

Daniel Willey

The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable.

Barbara W. Tuchman

One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, "had made both sides see themselves as they are.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Illusion of transparency: We always know what we mean by our words, and so we expect others to know it too. Reading our own writing, the intended interpretation falls easily into place, guided by our knowledge of what we really meant. It’s hard to empathize with someone who must interpret blindly, guided only by the words.Be not too quick to blame those who misunderstand your perfectly clear sentences, spoken or written. Chances are, your words are more ambiguous than you think.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Someone told me recently that a commentator or some sort had said, "The United States is in spiritual free-fall." When people make such remarks, such appalling judgements, they never include themselves, their friends, those with whom they agree. They have drawn, as they say, a bright line between an "us" and a "them." Those on the other side of the line are assumed to be unworthy of respect or hearing, and are in fact to be regarded as a huge problem to the "us" who presume to judge "them." This tedious pattern has repeated itself endlessly through human history and is, as I have said, the end of community and the beginning of tribalism.

Marilynne Robinson

It's not 'over-sensitivity' to ask to be treated with the same dignity and respect shown to others.

DaShanne Stokes

When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.

Criss Jami

It appears, from all this, that our eyes are uncertain. Two persons look at the same clock and there is a difference of two or three minutes in their reading of the time. One has a tendency to put back the hands, the other to advance them. Let us not too confidently try to play the part of the third person who wishes to set the first two aright; it may well happen that we are mistaken in turn. Besides, in our daily life, we have less need of certainty than of a certain approximation to certainty. Let us learn how to see, but without looking too closely at things and men: they look better from a distance.

Rémy de Gourmont

The old bitterness came up in him and he did not have time to cogitate and push it down.

Carson McCullers

Historical revisionists find what they set out to find.

Gregg Frazer

As a matter of fact, when it comes to seeing, men display two tendencies: they see what they wish to see, what is useful to them, what is agreeable. The second is the tendency toward inhibition; they do not see what they do not wish to see, what is useless to them, or disagreeable.

Rémy de Gourmont

He did something he rarely did. He decided not to see things from the other guy's point of view.

H.W. Brands

Perhaps wherever you go first is what you judge everything else by.

Patrick Hennessey

There is nothing quite like a dose of unvarnished history for inoculating people against the tendency to indict the present for failing to measure up to a sentimental notion of the past.

George F. Will

Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary.

Alexis de Tocqueville

We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind of things in the right kind of way. C.S. Lewis

Philip Zaleski

When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan.

Frank Herbert

There is no hatred as corrupting as intellectual hatred.

George F. Will

When critics surrender to the prevailing orthodoxy, the author says they adopt the rhetoric of an occupied country, "one that expects no liberation from liberation.

Harold Bloom

Any journalist who holds the office writes in a straitjacket.

Harold Holzer

The professor counsels against retrospective history, assuming that particular pieces contributed to an outcome.

Robert J. Allison

Romanticizing comes with colored glasses of the most colored sort.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

Behavior makes sense from the actor's perception or else the actor wouldn't do it. Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, you know, today I'm going to be conforming, mistaken, nasty, and so on.

Ellen J. Langer

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