@wim_v12e yes it’s very ignorant and unjust, like all discrimination—having a prior on a person’s ability/behavior based on some visible group marker, and possibly never updating those beliefs, instead of just having uninformative priors and evaluating evidence as it arrives, looking for the good & bad both in each person.

I sometimes think we’re so close to defeating discrimination, between object lessons on its destructiveness and the benefits of openness and the usefulness of meditation but…