Everybody's Prejudiced

Most books about prejudice are written from a safe distance - by someone studying it in others, never admitting to holding it themselves. This one starts differently. Richard Lowe goes first, laying out his own prejudices before asking the reader to examine theirs, because that's the only way a book like this earns the right to say what it's going to say.

Everybody's Prejudiced is an honest, agenda-free examination of how bias works in actual rooms with actual people. It starts with the mechanism: prejudice gets installed before you're old enough to question it, runs on the same tribal wiring every human brain carries, and never fully goes away - which is exactly why pretending you're above it is the most dangerous move you can make. From there the book walks through where prejudice shows up: race, gender, religion, class, age, disability, sexual orientation, the body, and the prejudices nobody bothers to name. It looks at how prejudice survives, what DEI got right and wrong, what trauma builds, and what happens when the mechanism runs free.

Then it turns to the part most books skip: what rational people actually do about it. Contact. Holding the line. The hard, unglamorous work of changing a mind - starting with your own. Lowe writes from sixty-plus years of observation rather than from a credential, at a reading level built for normal people living normal lives, not academics or activists. The claims are his, grounded in experience and supported by real research, and he tells you plainly which is which.

This is Book 8 in the Enemies of You series, which documents the forces working against your ability to think clearly and live well. Each book stands on its own. Read together, they reveal a pattern.