counterprejudice means A prejudice formed in response to another prejudice. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.
Why “counterprejudice” is a great word
COUNTERPREJUDICE — [Noun] A prejudice formed in reaction to or against an existing prejudice. From the English prefix counter- (meaning "against, in opposition to") + prejudice (from Old French *prejudice*, from Latin *praeiūdicium*, meaning "prior judgment"). Unlike "antiprejudice," an active principle opposing bias in general, or "retaliation," an act of reprisal, counterprejudice is specifically a reactive, inverted bias. It is the cold suspicion hardening in the heart of the long-accused, the defensive assumption of collective guilt in a group once victimized by it, and the weary conviction that one injustice can only be answered with another—a futile attempt to correct a distortion by bending the mirror in the opposite direction, leaving only doubled debris.
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- A prejudice formed in response to another prejudice.“Prejudice has bred a counterprejudice so that now neither faction can nor will see without distortion.”