Allport treated only inaccurate generalizations as prejudiced, excluding accurate risk aversion

Evidence

Allport further included inaccurate perception as one of the defining elements of both prejudice and stereotypes. Although he acknowledged that a “kernel of truth” may exist (1954/1979, p. 190), prejudice in Allport’s treatment is based on a “faulty and inflexible generalization” (p. 9). To elaborate this point, he described an anthropologist who studied a tribe of Native Americans but did not allow his children to mingle with the children of the tribe. Because this restriction was based on the anthropologist’s accurate perception that many people in the tribal village suffered from tuberculosis, he concluded that the anthropologist was not prejudiced but acted upon “rational and realistic grounds” (p. 4). — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 177

Categorization

• QUESTION: The tuberculosis example raises a live ethical puzzle — accurate group-based exclusion still implements harm; worth examining how the vault treats accuracy as a prejudice disqualifier.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 177