Be not judgmental
Each One of us is constrained by specific biological imperatives. This is things like procreation, hunger cravings to satisfy nutritional deficiencies, fight or flight response, sensory limitations to cope with excessive information that often lead to us perceiving associations instead of actual external clues.
Because of this, many of our reactions are constrained by the same biological imperatives and are thus influenced in a varying degree strength. Some of our reactions are well within our control and are merely preferential. Others are all consuming and force our behavior on an unconscious and unavoidable level. Each person is different and thus the Power these imperatives have on us differs from person to person. We cannot say that what affects us mildly does not affect others strongly and vice versa. One person may have an all consuming drive for safety and security where is another may require the adrenaline rush of danger to the point where they would risk their life for a thrill. Freestyle rock climbing is one such.
Recall the comment about sensory limitations. The overwhelming amount of data we can perceive could overload our senses in a heartbeat. Our brain therefore limits the amount of data we acquire and if needed, fills in the blanks created by associating it with similar situations with the same data. In fact, the brain makes judgments based on associations with past experience. This is genetically encoded into us so that our brain does not shut down from data overload. It has a negative affect of associating bad experiences with sensory input that is unrelated to a previous similar situation. Those judgments are entirely related to our own experiences and how they relate to our own personal biological imperatives which differ from person to person. In effect, any judgment we make is by comparing other people to our own personal feelings, desires, and biological imperative’s. We’re judging people by how much they are like our self and not by their value to society as a whole.
Judging other people is actually a biological survival technique. Even negative opinions and judgments are a survival technique and coded into our genetics. But it is on an animalistic level. A very wise man once said, “just because I have an opinion does not mean I am required to share it”. Judgments which lead to discrimination, including on the basis of race, will always be encoded into us. Which is not to say that all judgments on the basis of race or other discriminatory factors are bad, often as not they are actually positive judgments. We will always have our opinions. Saying we are non-judgmental or have no opinion is false implying we are nothing more than computers. And implying the judgments based on one factor, such as race, are somehow different than judgments based on another factor, such as ideology, is entirely unsophisticated. It is very much all the same thing.
But just because we are all judgmental and opinionated on a biological level, does not mean we have to act on it. We are not unconscious and instinct driven beasts like sharks or kudzu vine. If we wish to claim we are somehow better, that humanity is somehow superior to the wild beasts of the fields, then we must be distinct from our base judgmental biological encoding. Only by being honest with our self and our neighbors and admitting that we have preferences but we will not cause harm to others on that basis can we truly be human.