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Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated.

Old white people have pretty much always been the bad guys, the keepers of the hegemonic and reactionary flame, the folks unwilling to share the category of American with others on equal terms.

Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.

Anyone who doesn't agree with the Left's approach to immigration oftentimes gets stigmatized as anti-immigrant or anti-Hispanic.

Prejudices save time.

It's interesting to take a look at people who deal with prejudice on a daily basis - it's been a real eye opener for me.

That's the way cultural change works in America: the rest of us discard a prejudice that the Right still clings to; in the fullness of time, the Right comes around, too, deploying clever rationalizations to forget they ever bore the prejudice in the first place.

Happily, the days when overt racial discrimination and segregation were championed by social conservatives are long past.