Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1953-02-06
Brenda LELAND Defines Reasons
For Racial, Religious Intolerance
BY Brrnda Ueland In the Hennepln County REVH

by n Hennepan County REVIEW
nave studying myself Everybody
whether It Is anBrsh antiMethods antiJswish Or maybe
just furious prejudice the st against
people dOn against people
say fine and dandy, etc.
scoIding other We all oathsoms
the veSrga aavistc remains Of something foolish and
abysmA write editorials BE tolerant democracy
But the only kind Of dislike. scaled
off coldness for eounmen and human brothers the world
'h@' !" no GOOD
thing . study yourself And
now I viii:
my partly a insnc
like disageeable quarreIsome family
who unite at the drop Of hat In dslng another family just
dsagresabIe II 10 be the instinct that stfns
haired terrier against anything that Is outside
myself is
intelligent you Intelligence your imagna
ton can see into other people and ngs the more Interested de-
lighted should be by what different How tedious
orchestra Of pccoo Think Man Germany wanting In their
nothing but Naz Germansa blond all pink with rather
agreed everything everybody
good cannot imagine anything depressing than land of
adulterated Man Germans.
my Z asperity-that quick
running APP
o. along and find flaw in him
straw Never could like who neckte like that
of it that If appeared with perfect necktie
Them Nope Because then would jealous
Because all critical asPey springs from concet Y perfection
LIST sensitive to things " tell yourself But it is all
moagerness, conoet
SO q say o myself you point Negroes
Frencmsn Engshmsn southsrnsrs Yankees with osthng
index eme their bad traits find simultaneously
that WE shining gods bright honorable and
beautiful.
But isn't When you intolerance others always
backward look at yourself and ask: Am that way" It is
axiom that what in others yourself sus
body gIeleSs liars that everybody always lying brave people
always that others And so It
a suspicion my
thoughts spring independently
skulls Not Thoughts the air and flow
vby and pematngy into your own brain and fill it-as river
through cheese cloth The more mediocre your mental equip
the readily mediocre thoughts Of endless undferen
ised yokels swamp and drown out your
Ana o strongest argument against
sign Of intellectual vugArity Of inertia of
boobery Is all primitive thinking low scale And this
why's
French psychologist a study mentality
and he discovered that the difference between primitive
thinking twhen bother think this that
mind mystic" "preogcal" II fused The dead living
reality. a
shot him. must on waking XIII this man. and II he does he will
consider himself the Prmitvos LevyBh said
into kind of miss shrinking Ia masS-ntutOn)
For they belief that crocodis
gators harmless and they take precautions them II
native killed always who told the
do It, The wizard Is sought and killed but the crocodile is not to
| blame.
primivss thinking
believe two things at l. That the wizard and crocodile
identical and that they The primitive mind
explanation slides with perfect indifference all secondary
| causes
prejudice prriudlces to
just thaH vesgA remain Of primitive thlnnG' Blurred
amorphou thinking? thinking
tlOns Jews The British Coored people
II Is the kind mentality that
Women liars and that
individual since the beginning Of time Is different.
And when you blanket dislike a group
remember Just slump into primitive vulgar think
ing OF course peasurabe commonplace American
Safeguarding the English stupid Engshman
heard of rarely know the people baguArd the
vrllent Safeguarding
And thereby he feeling o superiority
great Englshmsn like Lord Robert Cecil Gilbert
Sir
Every then % he
sential Christianity truly original thing
notion Of forgiveness" evdoers
state Of xty person sternaIy
changing
An individual father
his occupation politics Republican
Communist He himself
ter that
EivCneSs you forgive fxy
don't have to
they INTERNATIONALLY changed
afternoon. you rejoice And this the
best o change anybody.