Tag: stereotypes

Exploring the impact of racism on our perceptions: A personal reflection on how bias influenced the author's initial perspective of Kamala Harris.

I’m not always a fan of Jewish attorney and author Alan Dershowitz, but his refutation of the “Jews control the media” stereotype, which he wrote for HuffPost back in 2010, takes an approach I think is pretty effective.

Q. Why do you feel Mormonism, specifically, is often viewed through a lens of skepticism and stereotype? A. It is kind of difficult for me as an “insider” to answer this question, because I've been raised as a Latter-day Saint and we seem so normal and non-threatening to me, but I’ll take a stab at it.