"Those people are different and inferior."

It& #39;s a major shift when people raised believing the above manage to delete "and inferior& #39; from their world view.

It would be nice if & #39;different& #39;, at least when it comes to an entire group, would go away also.

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

It& #39;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& #39;t determine it.