Some people seem more willing to openly display prejudice regarding sexual orientation than prejudice regarding race and gender. Speculate on why this might be.

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Tara Lynch

2 July, 06:44

Some people seem more willing to openly display prejudice regarding sexual orientation than prejudice regarding race and gender. Speculate on why this might be.

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Kendra Austin · Answer 1

Sexual orientation goes against some peoples religion where as race and gender don't?

Eliezer Weiss · Answer 2

Because people believe that sexual orientation is a choice, so you deserve prejudice if you make the wrong choice, however, you don't choose your race.

Explanation:

Sexual orientation is a term that is related to the different forms of affective and sexual attraction of each other. As we know, according to sexual orientation people may be sexually attracted to same-sex or opposite-sex people. However, many believe that sexual orientation is a choice and being attracted to a same-sex person is a wrong choice, so people who make that choice must suffer the consequences of their actions and be discriminated against.

There is a lot of discrimination regarding the race of people (black, Latino, Asian). Although this type of discrimination recurs, it is less than discrimination based on sexual orientation. This is because one's race does not depend on one's choice. People are already born in their races, so the prejudiced believe that they are not to blame for being born into an "inferior" race.