Don't Just Stand There: Reactions to Prejudiced Comments and Jokes

The next example he uses is of how Obama chose to combat the rumors that he faced during the election with a website. He explained this in the article by saying,“Buffeted by rumors about his religion, his upbringing, and controversial statements made by his wife, Obama launched Fight the Smears, a website that lists every well-traveled false rumor about the candidate, alongside rebuttals and explanations for how the rumors arose” (512-513). Lasly he also uses an example of a rumor from Sarah Palin. He writes,”With rumors circulating in the blogosphere that Sarah Palin's youngest baby might actually have

Prejudice is an issue that is alive and well in society today. Many people are willing to speak their mind and say exactly what they think without giving thought to who might be hurt by the words that they speak. In a culture where people can be very easily offended, prejudice has become an issue that must be addressed. In her essay "Don’t Just Stand There", Diane Cole expresses her ideas towards prejudice. She says that people should stand up to prejudice in order to keep people from being hurt. People may not always change when they are confronted, but confrontation allows somebody to address the problem. Confronting prejudice can have a positive effect on people because it may allow people to realize what they are saying, it can help change the way that people think, and it can stop the acts of prejudice.

She gives many points to appear credible and trustworthy towards her readers. This strategy is called the author’s use of ethos. She uses this approach to support her claim that the number of law students who passed the bar exam has fallen due to law schools admitting students with very weak LSAT scores, a glitch in the exam software, and an additional subject added to the bar. Merritt addresses in the article that the N.C.B.E. claims they have no role in the lowering bar passage. She states, “The N.C.B.E. insists that last year’s decline stems solely from weaker LSAT scores -- even though its own data shows otherwise” (Merritt). Merritt clearly has data, charts that the N.C.B.E. posted, which shows that they do have a role in lowering bar passage. The N.C.B.E. was trying to blame just the LSAT scores, but they also had to do with it, shown from their own data Merritt found. By Merritt finding her own data, she looks more credible. It would be harder to have confidence in a writer if they did not seem credible or have a good reputation. Merritt does both of these things by arguing back to the N.C.B.E. that she has data to prove her points. She is also a chair in law member at a university which shows good character, a good reputation, and that she knows a lot of information about law

There have been various junctures throughout the book where Cole has had some definite failures. A specific example is when he attempts not once, but twice

In the essay "Don't Just Stand There", Diana Cole explains her views on speaking up against prejudice and offensive jokes or phrases. Cole's essay explains how she believes that speaking out against prejudice always makes a differences, even if it is not an immediate one. Cole explains the proper ways of speaking up, stating that lashing out usually ends badly but remaining calm can put a person in control. Cole discusses the proper way to respond to something offensive, how to handle speaking to an unresponsive person, how to handle peer pressure, and the best way to go about dealing with the prejudice of a superior. In Abigail's opinion, Cole's views on how best to deal with offensive comments are very wise. In Abigail's opinion, remaining

In the essay “Don’t Just Stand There,” Diane Cole discusses the prejudice remark directed toward her and how someone should react to such a harsh comment thrown at them on purpose or on accident. In Cole’s essay, her coworker made a comment trying to be funny and the remark ended up insulting Cole due to her being Jewish. In response to this, Cole ignored the situation and later thought about what she could have done to prevent any future actions.

The United States of America has a deep and rich history. Unfortunately, this history has been tainted by racism and intolerance. For a long time in this country, minorities have been viewed as less than other Americans. Like the book, Mississippi Trial, 1955 shows, racism affects many areas of people life. Their have been many attempts to change this way of thinking. Many different civil rights movements have taken place to get equal rights for everyone. However, the United States still suffers from a race problem. What cause racism? In the article, Breaking Down Prejudices: Racism in America: Past and Present, the author Kristian Lazaridi, states the reasons for racism. She states that “According to Aronson (1998) there are four basic reasons

A teacher hears a co-worker tell an insulting joke about children and families of a specific ethnic group. (Feeney)

In this modern world, prejudice is still a universal problem we still have yet to overcome. Although it is true that our society is much less prejudiced than it was 40-50 years ago, we are still struggling to create racial harmony in a world that is so diverse in terms of racial group, sexual orientations, ethnicity, nationality, religions, and so on. I think the core of prejudice comes from stereotyping, which is the generalization of motives, characteristics, or behavior to an entire group of people. In the world where media propaganda is ubiquitous, often times most stereotypes are not formed on valid experiences, instead they are based on images publicized by the mass media, or even created within our heads after seeing and hearing examples from many different sources, like movies, or even hearsay. Stereotyping is more powerful than we think, because it allows those false pictures to control our thinking that leads us to assign uniform characteristics to any person in a group, without consideration of the actual difference between members of that particular group.

Peer-reviewed article “All Lives Matter: The Cost of Colorblind Racial Attitudes in Diverse Social Networks”, examines the effects of colorblind racial attitudes and outgoing prejudice on people’s social network positions within a diverse social setting. Sixty-four racial diverse individuals were screened and participated in this study as they were examined by their interactions amongst one another using a virtual avatar website called Second Life. Researchers examined how colorblind racial attitudes, above and beyond the effects of outgroup prejudice, were related to participants’ avatars’ social network positions that were based on friendships that developed during events. The authors’ developed numerous hypothesis but specifically, they

This essay is going to discuss about racism in comedy and in addition to that it is also going to look at whether it is acceptable for comedians to use certain racial words for example when black comedians use the word “Nigger”. Also it is going to look at how different audience put up with this kind of material, but first of all it is going to look at the actual word itself and where in the blue marble that we call earth it originated from.

The three concepts I believe that were occurring in the video were prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. To cite some of the things he said after he refused to serve her. He said “we don’t serve Muslims here” (Ill). He also said that America was “at war with your people” (Ill) indicating that she was a terrorist and at one point even making comments about her possibly having a bomb. He even told her to “get back on the camel and go back wherever you came from” (Ill) and that “Americans don’t wear towels on their heads” (Ill).

The speaker responds to Prejudice differently in every stanza. As evidence in line 1 of stanza 3, line 1 of stanza 4, line 1 of stanza 5, line 1 of stanza 6, line 1 of stanza 7, and line 4 of stanza 8, show she responds to Prejudice. To explain, in stanza 3 the speaker address Prejudice with politeness, stanza 4 with reasoning, stanza 5 with passion, stanza 6 with begging, stanza 7 with helplessness, and in stanza 8 as if he wasn’t there.

- Fallacy of Oversimplification - When a person is saying A caused B while ignoring the

In any society, how we see ourselves and how others treat us depends on many factors. Race, ethnicity, and cultural background are identifiers of individuals. Most people have confronted prejudice based on these identifiers, either personally experiencing discrimination or knowing someone who has. Beyond ensuring organizational compliance with a country’s anti-discrimination laws, it is incumbent upon managers to support diversity in the workplace and to be culturally competent.