[marcus_holmes]

the whole "prosperity" thing in modern US christianity associates with this: that if you're a good christian then god will make you wealthy. So therefore poor people are by definition unworthy, and wealthy people deserve their wealth.

Note that this is in exact opposition to the wealth-heaven-camel-needle teaching in the bible. But that doesn't seem to matter. I'm sure there are interpretations that can make it go away.

[habnds]

for real, in addition, there's interesting research looking at how, punishing and exiling groups of people alters society's relationship with that group.

Stuff like harrassment, arrest, and enforcement actions against a specific group of people isn't the _result_ of prejudice, its frequenty the _cause_ of prejudice due to the just-cause fallacy.