Rank prejudice

09:29 Sep 14, 2014

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Social Sciences - Religion

English term or phrase: Rank prejudice

When religion creates divisions of intolerance and hatred, it is obviously guilty of bad faith. Southern churches—piously justifying slavery before the Civil War, then turning a blind eye to racial injustice for a century afterward—used God as a mask for rank prejudice.

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onverholen discriminatie

Ron Willems

stuitende bevooroordeeldheid

Barend van Zadelhoff

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rank prejudice onverholen discriminatie

Explanation:
schaamteloos, zou je ook kunnen zeggen.

zie 4a (shockingly conspicuous) hieronder:

1: luxuriantly or excessively vigorous in growth
2: offensively gross or coarse : foul
3 obsolete : grown too large
4a : shockingly conspicuous <must lecture him on his rank disloyalty — David Walden>
b : outright —used as an intensive <rank beginners>
5 archaic : lustful, ruttish
6: offensive in odor or flavor; especially : rancid

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rank

Ron Willems
Netherlands
Local time: 15:46
Native speaker of:

Dutch

3 hrs confidence:

rank prejudice stuitende bevooroordeeldheid

Explanation:
Ging het niet vanuit de religie gezien niet juist om vooroordelen over zwarten die werden 'onderbouwd' met teksten uit de Bijbel?

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Prejudice: to prejudge someone unfairly, usually based on a stereotype.

Discrimination: acting on a prejudice. This can involve treating someone unfairly or preventing them from having equal chances in life.

Stereotype: having an over simplified mental image of people and applying it to everyone in that group.

In the southern states of the USA there used to be the Jim Crow Laws, or segregation, which separated black and white people. Many Christians defended these laws.

http://goffsrs.com/aqa-gcse-revision-2/aqa-gcse-revision-uni...

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bv.

gebruikten God als een masker waarachter stuitende bevooroordeeldheid schuilging.

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Role of the church:

piously justifying slavery before the Civil War

een door God gegeven instituut en opdracht

then turning a blind eye to racial injustice (after the Civil war)

geen discriminatie, laat staan 'onverholen discriminatie' maar de ogen sluiten voor discriminatie = eerder 'verholen discriminatie'

Waar het vooral om gaat in deze context/zin is 'scheve opvattingen' (vooroordelen) over zwarten, religieuze retoriek ook ('piously justifying' slavery). Hier wordt gewezen op de onderliggende ideeën die de 'slavery' rechtvaardigen en de ingebakken ideeën waardoor men onrechtvaardigheid tegen zwarten niet veroordeelt.

M.a.w. het gaat hier over vooroordelen.

In de aanloop naar de Civil War en tijdens de Civil War:

The perspective of what would quickly become the “Confederate States of America”—the southern perspective—balanced on two points: first, that the individual state was sovereign, even to the point of secession; second, that the “peculiar institution” of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture. When news spread of the surrender of Fort Sumter on April 13 and of Lincoln’s call for 75,000 troops, one southern state after another seceded and the Confederacy (of 11 states in all) was born. With it was born the South’s embrace of religion as its moral defense and its motive force.

And when they suffered the afflictions of northern armies in their backyards and growing numbers of war dead, they strengthened and consoled themselves with the knowledge that they were doing God’s work on earth.

Part of that work, as had long been argued, was the “Christianizing” of the African slaves. To address abolitionists’ cries for an end to slavery, southern preachers declared that slavery was a sacred trust imposed on the South by the slave traders of Great Britain and the northern states. Furthermore, some averred, God had ordained slavery as a punishment for African paganism.

Ironically, this very conviction led Southern educators to talk seriously for the first time about educating the black people among them. Baptist ministers, especially, sought to pass resolutions encouraging their congregations to work politically toward repealing laws banning slave literacy. It was only logical that if the South was commissioned by God to create a Christian nation, its success in the war would depend on God’s favor. For some, this suggested that God’s favor could be lost through ill treatment of the slaves or, conversely, won through greater humanitarianism.

http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo...

Barend van Zadelhoff
Netherlands
Local time: 15:46
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