Monday, March 22, 2010
What's Frustrating Me Right at This Very Second
If someone says "I have my opinion, don't bother me with your facts," is there any way that the opinion isn't a prejudice?
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Who Is This Hornswoggler?
- Andrew Wheeler
- Andrew Wheeler was Senior Editor of the Science Fiction Book Club and then moved into marketing. He currently works for Thomson Reuters as Manager, Content Marketing, focused on SaaS products to legal professionals. He was a judge for the 2005 World Fantasy Awards and the 2008 Eisner Awards. He also reviewed a book a day multiple times. He lives with The Wife and two mostly tame children (Thing One, born 1998; and Thing Two, born 2000) in suburban New Jersey. He has been known to drive a minivan, and nearly all of his writings are best read in a tone of bemused sarcasm. Antick Musings’s manifesto is here. All opinions expressed here are entirely those of Andrew Wheeler, and no one else. There are many Andrew Wheelers in the world; this may not be the one you expect.
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2 comments:
Following politics again, are we?
You are looking for an actual answer?
"Prejudice" to me implies unthinking ignorance. If someone has thoroughly investigated a subject and formed an opinion on that basis and is disinclined to revisit the issue, I would not describe him as prejudiced. No one is intellectually obligated to give every odd-ball argument a hearing. At most, this is "prejudice" of a type so narrow and technical as to make the word misleading.
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