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Preface
How to Live with Prejudices
Anton Pelinka
Prejudice is one of the problems of our times for which everyone has a theory, but no one an answer
—Horkheimer and Flowerman 1949, 5.
Whoever is familiar with social sciences is familiar with the existence and consequences of prejudices. We have evidence of a broad variety of societies and social milieus, of political movements and preferences—all defined by prejudices. Prejudices do not have a monopoly in determining society and politics. But prejudices have been and still are—and will continue to be—a determining factor from which society and politics will not be able to escape.
The political choice is not to establish a society without prejudices, but a society without the most explosive, most cruel, most devastating forms of prejudices. We cannot eradicate all the pictures people have in their minds of the female (or male) role in society. We cannot create a society which is colour-blind regarding visible differences among