Distinguishing Between Fact, Opinion, Belief, and Prejudice

In today's religious and political environment a growing number of "prejudices" are being mistakenly being labeled as "facts" and "beliefs." I came across a very short paper for a writing course at Colorado State University, which provides some very useful definitions of the above words. The professionally engineered "prejudice traps" that are dominating 30-second sound bites only work on an uninformed audience. Make sure you are able to distinguish between facts, opinions, beliefs and prejudices. Please take a moment to read it at -- http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/teaching/co300man/pop12d.cfm
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