Paul Bloom on Prejudice Over the course of centuries, the word prejudice has garnered a negative response. It really comes to no surprise, considering all the social injustices that have happen in the course of our history because of prejudice. To further emphasize that this is how people think, Paul Bloom quotes a British critic named William Hazlitt with his written statement, “Prejudice is the child of ignorance” (qtd in Bloom 0:22). Yet, this is not the point of his Ted Talk, after all, it is titled “Can Prejudice Ever Be a Good Thing?” Psychologist Paul Bloom uses a mixture of logic and credible sources to demonstrate that prejudice is natural and not evil, He uses these methods to demonstrate the negative effect extreme prejudice has in our society and how we have learned from these social injustices. …show more content…
Simply put, bias and prejudice are derived from everyday decisions. By displaying a picture of a dog, a chair, and an apple, he gets people’s minds working, and clearly states that whatever they think of when seeing these images can be right, or can be wrong (1:30). Could it be that prejudice comes from experience? Bloom continues by displaying a written quote by Hazlitt, “Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room…nor what to feel in any relation of life (qtd in Bloom 2:05). Logic and experience helps mold people’s minds and thoughts, and he knows how to use it to convey his