No one has discernment for what they aren’t. […] You can’t. It’s the hardest thing in the world. It’s hard enough to have empathy to what they aren’t let alone discernment. […]
— Jon Steward at 50:30
If we were more understanding of prejudice and stereotype and less tolerant of racism we’d understand that prejudice and stereotype are functions mostly of ignorance and of experience. Racism is malevolent, right? But the other is way more natural, but we react as though it would metastasize immediately. And so I think we throw out barriers to each other […] before we have to.
— Jon Steward at 56:00