"Those people are different and inferior."

It's a major shift when people raised believing the above manage to delete "and inferior' from their world view.

It would be nice if 'different', at least when it comes to an entire group, would go away also.

That is, of course, a comment on systemic racism.

It's also a comment on how women are perceived.

Older people, too.

Those are just the groups that I belong to that come to mind on first thought.

You probably have a few groups, too.

The efforts to avoid thinking disparagingly of others, based on some arbitrary characteristic represents a giant step forward for us.

The next big step is to realize that those characteristics may influence who they are, but they don't determine it.