Reply #8: Prejudice is a silly word.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

It's possible to define prejudice loosely enough that virtually any view can be described as a prejudice.

It's possible to define prejudice tightly enough that it's automatically a bad thing.

A lot of people say "X is prejudiced and therefore bad", switching between definitions half way through, and generating a cheap and virutally unrebuttable attack.

I think it's better to use more tightly defined terms; the tighter the better. Saying "This policy is racist" or better yet "this policy is racially discriminatory" is far more substantive than saying "this policy is prejudiced", and therefore more useful.