Before you get your knickers in a bunch, let's agree that there are differences among discrimination, prejudice, and bigotry. Discrimination is recognizing the differences between things generally and valuing some more than others.  This is why we choose one melon out of the bunch in the supermarket and we don't marry the first person we date.  We may have a discriminating taste. Prejudice is an opinion on things or people not necessarily based on personal knowledge or experience.  It is alterable by countervailing evidence.  I have a prejudice against ferrets as pets, but a friend said his was a lovely animal. Bigotry is prejudice independent of, and unalterable by, evidence. So, recognizing that discrimination is good and bigotry is bad and everyone is prejudiced about something, let's take a concrete example.  The AMA has recently updated its policy on cherry-picking and lemon-dropping patients.   It says that's...(Read Full Post)