Prejudice has been around for hundreds of years. Whether you know it or not, chances are, you are prejudice or have used prejudice in your life at some point. Prejudice is a preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. Prejudice usually has an unfavorable connotation and is usually assembled with inadequate facts or evidence. I first became aware of prejudice when I was learning about segregation in the United States back in fourth grade and ever since, prejudice is a part of my everyday life. The word prejudice gets a bad wrap. Just look at the word itself: pre-justice. It's essentially the "don't judge a book by it's cover  saying. In "In Defense of Prejudice  our author Jonathan Rauch boldly defends prejudice instead of taking the liberal stance in trying to get rid of it. He believes that society needs to not focus on eliminating prejudices but instead focus on redirecting them so that they can be beneficial to our society. If we all share the same prejudice under one's belief, our society will be become narrow minded. I believe Rauch's main point is that prejudice is simply human nature. If we are all human, our instinct is to have prejudice. Therefor, nobody is brought up without prejudice. No matter how hard you try to pick apart prejudice, whether through its vocabulary, action, or thought, prejudice is an inevitable aspect of society. Language has a lot to do with prejudice. The vocabulary of prejudice is very rich and hateful. When people talk about racism, the vocabulary of the subject is vast with many different words and connotations. For instance, there are at least over a dozen racial slurs for people of Jewish descent. Even though there is a wide variety of hurtful and distasteful words concerning prejudice, Rauch does not believe that these words should be "eradicated.  All you do by banning certain words is give them more power. If we were to act as if those words had no meaning or hurt