1. Stages of Prejudice Stage #1 Antilocution Means ‘speaking against’
Taken from psychologist Gordon Allport, in his book The Nature of Prejudice
Stage #1 Antilocution
Means ‘speaking against’
Words like nigger, wetback, etc– which are deliberate
Sometimes negative speech occurs almost unconsciously
“Indian-giver” “I got gyped” “That’s so gay.”
Using the word “jew” in reference to money
What words and phrases do we use to put others down?
Antilocution hurts both the person demeaned,
and the “out” group utilized to demean the person.

2. Who do you make a point of avoiding? Why?
Stage #2 Avoidance
Prejudiced persons can and do go to great lengths to avoid and stay away from persons they dislike.
Not sitting next to someone on a bus, at lunch, in a class
Crossing the street to avoid someone
Hurrying away from someone who they think hasn’t noticed them
at a party, store, etc.
Those who are avoided feel dehumanized
Ironically, the prejudiced person may inconvenience him/herself with this behavior
Once this stage is reached, it often leads to worse stages of prejudice.
Who do you make a point of avoiding? Why?

3. Stage #3 Discrimination Harmful actions against disliked persons
Discrimination denies people their fundamental human rights, at the very least it does not treat them like equals
Examples:
Denying people jobs OR wages OR benefits due to race, sex, religion, weight, age, etc.
Excluding people from neighborhoods
Restricting people’s educational opportunities
Excluding people from joining social groups
Segregation both in law/ policy and behind-the-scenes
Propaganda

4. Stage #4 Physical Attack
Physically harmful actions against the ‘undesirable’
Heightened emotions many times lead to this stage
In US Law, this is referred to a hate crime
Examples:
Desecrating graveyards
Spitting on people
Throwing stones or other objects (even “soft” ones like food)
Forcible ejection from place/ neighborhood
Gang violence
Gay bashing
No one should have to refrain from going certain places in order to avoid these actions.
Everyone has the right to be free from these behaviors, and society has the duty to protect everyone from these.

5. Stage #5 Extermination
It is the killing or murder of the ‘undesirable,’ either an individual or an entire group of people.
The ultimate and worst form of discrimination
Examples:
Assassinations- can you name an example?
Lynchings
Bombings
Ethnic/ Religious cleansings
Historians have termed the 20th Century as the most violent in human history. They are speaking in terms of quantity of events- Nazi Germany, Turkey’s genocide against Armenia, Mao’s ethnic cleansing of China, African tribal cleansings, the European settlers to the Americas, etc.