Is this kind of thinking any different than judging a person by their colour, creed, or religion?
One type of prejudice is not better or worse than another. What prejudice is at its very roots is the inability to see a person as a whole that contains many parts. Furthermore, prejudice is judging someone through a myopic single lens that blinds us to the beauty of who they are above and beyond that narrow view we have decided is the only representation. There was a time when the media said Michael was a child molester and you may have heard that and agreed. After all, the evidence we the public were fed was incriminating.