In our latest round table discussion we welcome back to the podcast Hári Sewell who is a trainer and consultant in equality and social justice and author of Working with Ethnicity, Race and Culture in Mental Health , ex-white supremacist and now peace activist Arno Michaelis, author of My Life After Hate and the chair of the Middle Way Society, the philosopher Robert M Ellis, author of many books including the Middle Way Philosophy series. The topic today will be prejudice, what it is, how it affects us and what we might do about it.
MWS Podcast 119: Prejudice as audio only:
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Great discussion about prejudice. Like Arno’s comments about the value of the Middle Way. Trying to understand the other person’s point of view will help you be a more effective and kinder person. The more open we become to others position….. is an asset.
Me too, Charlotte. Here’s a short video with the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt making a similar point especially in regard to effectiveness when you take other people’s views into account. He uses this quote by the philosopher John Stuart Mill to highlight this:
“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion…”