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[kruddler]

You beat me to it, Thryleon, and much more concisely than my edit ;D

A prejudice or bias may lead to the correct conclusion on the odd occasion but then again a broken clock is right 2 times a day. Maybe someone who believes all black people will rob you on the streets may benefit by avoiding a particular black person who intended to do so, but that doesn’t mean his prejudice is vindicated.

Sure, but that also doesn't mean that gut instinct is always wrong either.....or more likely to be wrong.
Not suggesting its 100% right, but to tar it all with the same prejudice brush is not right either.

Policework (at least historically) relied on gut instincts to point people in the right direction when reading people and/or solving cases. They used that well trained gut to sniff out a direction to help them gather evidence to prove their gut correct.
You tell a cop that he is prejudice in the same manner you did with LP and see how that works out for ya.  :o

There should be a word (i'm sure the germans have one) for a well-trained gut that is largely correct. Again, this is not specific to LP and his assertions about Coon etc, just in general terms.