Prejudgment is execution

This should be on the literary spotlight

Hey there, I think I might just fit this review in before I have to go to bed.

So, I think the first thing this could benefit from is being a lot longer. Racists are very difficult people to convince, so you need to take them down with iron-clad logic that it's impossible for them to pick holes in. While everything you have said here is correct, you haven't really explained why.

For example, you have mentioned "an innocent person whose only crime was to be of a certain race, color, or religion". This is an entirely true characterisation. But the reason that racists are racists is because they disagree with this. They think that there is something wrong with being black, or Muslim. You have to show them why that's not the case. Walk them through the fact that you can't choose who you're born as. Or, even if black people are more likely to commit crime, that's only because people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are more likely to commit crime, and due to centuries of systematic oppression, people from ethnic minorities are more likely to come from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Not to mention people from ethnic minorities are more likely to be targeted by the police, because of this stereotype, and be scared of the police.

You also need to give some emotic impact of the things that happen. Give me a view of our innocent victim's family grieving their loved one. Give me something that a racist can relate to. Something that will tug on their heartstrings before they remember that this is a family from a background they are prejudiced against. Their beliefs are often unfounded, built on nonsense logic that they can't possibly prove, but they feel it. Make them, then, feel that these people are just like them. Fight emotion with emotion.

Hope this helps,
Biscuits

I agree wholeheartedly with your commentary. However, please note that making a generalization is sometimes a defensive mechanism that serves to protect a person from unnecessary harm. For example, was it wrong for a Jew in NAZI Germany to automatically suspect that a non Jewish German would hand
him or her over to the Gestapo? Previous experience had taught many to be extremely cautious and to be safe rather than sorry. Was that prejudice wrong?

I grew up in a neighborhood where I knew that if I walked in a certain area the livelihood of getting beaten up increased. So I avoided that part of the neighborhood r if I walked through it I did so with apprehension. Was that unreasonable? I knew I was disliked. I knew it would anger the residents. I knew that the kids there would consider me fair game. Was my caution unwarranted simply because among then there were people who were not that way. Should I have thrown caution to the wind? That can prove very costly. I threw caution to the wind once and was attacked on a public bus.

So yes I agree with your opinion to a degree. But not to the degree that I am going to become so naive that it will cost me my health or my life.

Stop judging and have empathy