The norm against prejudice protects only prejudices seen as unwarranted

Evidence

But what we are increasingly noticing is the contrary: it is the people ‘of the times’ who are prepared to alter, transform and limit the standards of decency! The social norm against prejudice only extends to prejudices construed as unwarranted prejudices. Moral exclusion prejudices (like prejudices against Roma) perpetuate and are resistant to criticism because they are presented as rational and warranted prejudices. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 547

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Inverts the standard view that prejudice norm-followers are conformists: the morally modern are those who redraw the boundary of decency itself. The idea that a norm against prejudice could protect certain prejudices as ‘warranted’ is a genuinely paradigm-shifting framing.

Related

• Standards of what counts as prejudice shift with prevailing norms (similarity 0.83)
• Prejudices against Roma are among the last socially acceptable prejudices (similarity 0.81)
• Prejudice can operate as a social norm internal to a group (similarity 0.80)
• Not all prejudices are alike; each is culturally situated (similarity 0.80)
• Prejudices arising from denying moral worth need societal analysis (similarity 0.79)
• Racism against Romani people is the last acceptable prejudice in Europe (similarity 0.79)
• Manipulating social norms proves a powerful way to reduce prejudice (similarity 0.79)
• Anti-Roma prejudice resists explanation as individual psychological bias (similarity 0.78)
• Society’s creed and norms explain prejudice better than any single theory (similarity 0.78)
• Prejudice is an interpretive concept lacking fixed definition (similarity 0.78)
• The decent middle’s prejudice is conscious moral unease, not unconscious bias (similarity 0.78)
• Understanding prejudice requires cultural, not merely psychological, analysis (similarity 0.78)