The "solutions" that have been offered by politicians are staggeringly flimsy: he quotes Theresa May's claim that "house prices could be 10% lower over 20 years if the government cut net migration to zero", and curtly points out that "she assumes that the electorate she wants to appeal to is innumerate as well as prejudiced.
People are swayed by racist attitudes of which they are not conscious; even victims of racism can harbor racist attitudes (even against their own group); and less-recent immigrants may well be prejudiced against more-recent immigrants.
Two days after sentencing, the Secretary of State for War quashed all the convictions, stating that the Judge Advocate-General had advised him that there were, "a number of irregularities of a substantial nature which may well have prejudiced the accused individually.
His ear is well tuned to prejudice; he moved to Albuquerque from Houston because he did not find Houston welcoming to Mexican-Americans.
But the evidence he cites, along with the newfound link between "well-feeling" and prejudice, might at least shake our belief in happiness as the summum bonum.
"The question is do you go ahead and say, well their prejudice is just fine, I'll have to change who I am?
The conference, which included commemorations at the former Nazi concentration camp of Terezin, sought to bring attention to rising intolerance in Europe, including anti-Semitism as well as prejudice against Roma, Muslims, gays and other groups.
Or do you say, well the prejudice is simply wrong?" This was the heart of the matter for Ms. Williams and her class here amid the backwoods beauty of Appalachia.
When US ambassador Nancy Powell visited one of Delhi's leading Sikh temples, the Gurudwara Bangla Sahib, on Monday, members gave her a written statement that dealt with gun control as well as prejudice against Sikhs living in the US.
It might offend; it might be unfair; and it could well engender prejudice.
