Reply #30: Exactly [View All]

[Empowerer]

There's a HUGE difference between saying that Muslims on an airplane pose a threat and, therefore, it is reasonable for people to fear them and saying that one feels uneasy when seeing Muslims on an airplane but that unease is unreasonable and unfair.

People can't help how they feel - their feelings come about for many reasons. We all have prejudices. But if we recognize that those prejudices are unfair and irrational, try to grow past them, and, in the meantime, refuse to force public policy and other behaviors conform to them, we are making progress. Shutting someone down for acknowledging a prejudice - particularly when they're doing it in the context that Williams did is counterproductive. It's also, in my view, hypocritical and sanctimonious.