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Making your mind up

Reducing ‘beliefism’ by design

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Prof Paul Dolan
May 14, 2024
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In my new book, I will coin a new term – beliefism. It refers to discrimination against someone based on them having different beliefs. The more you discriminate, the more beliefist you are. Beliefism can be seen as a stronger form of intolerance. Someone who is beliefist is not only intolerant of people and perspectives that are different to theirs, but they actively avoid people who disagree. In so doing, they distance themselves from everything that person believes. A beliefist may pass someone over for a job, say, because they only want to hire people who share similar beliefs on issues that matter to them. Logically, there is no difference between racism, sexism, classism, beliefism or any other “ism” in this regard.

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