What is it that makes prejudiced people think that they are better than those who they condemn? Do you think that most people who are prejudiced can really even explain why they are?

I have entered into this debate with bigots about many issues. At times I have entertained myself by issuing challenges to bigots of all kinds to prove their beliefs via objective, not subjective, data.

If I enter into these debates, I do not go unarmed. I come with plenty of objective studies by reputable sources and I am willing, if needed, to spend hours to find something to back up my position. By that I am referring to such as Stanford studies, medical texts, and the like.

Personal opinion is personal opinion and should be treated as such in a debate.

When I do that I do it with the stipulation that the data must come from an unbiased source. I eliminate any such things as reliance on religious passages.

I have not had ONE person, not one, be able to logically out debate me. The debates either become circular with them repeating the same thing rather than answering me or they become ad-hominum attacks upon myself.

Both of these outcomes prove my point: there IS no logic behind prejudice.

I have many theories upon why people are bigoted. It could be because they have low self-esteem. It is most certainly because most of them have been raised that way. In that case, then it is a lazy mind that will not examine the teachings.

It's ignorance, plain and simple. And no, if they are prejudiced they can't explain why, because they are ignorant.

Most prejudiced people have limited life experiences on which they have created a limited mental model of how things worked for them in the past. They may have met a bad apple of another race or ethnicity and assumed that all people who look like that, act like that. It's like the black cat theory of walking down a street: if you're ignorant and a black cat runs out and you get hit by a car, you may assume the two experiences were linked. It's a faulty causal association.

Some do but many prejudiced people don't necessarily think they are better than those they condemn, they just can't stand a certain group of people for assorted reasons.
Of course most people who are prejudiced can explain why they are. Why wouldn't they be able to?
You may have heard people say that prejudice is the result of ignorance. That is asinine.
There are always valid reasons.
An example:
Racial prejudice:
Let us say there is a race of people who are, as a rule, stupid, lazy, vulgar, immoral and obnoxious.
Let's say they commit more crimes than other races, like stealing anything not bolted down.
Let's say they attended (and graduated from) the same schools you did but are still too stupid to speak the language above a 4 year old's level.
Let's say they have a music genre that is vulgar in the extreme and they love to play it at ear-splitting levels just to annoy those around them.
Let's say they have their own skin color. (We'll pick green)
Let's say a majority of them live off of government hand outs that cost taxpayers billions of dollars.
Let's say they like to think themselves victims.
Let's say they stink.
Let's say they are rabidly racist and bigoted but love to call other races racist.
Let's say that when their stupidity, laziness or thieving nature results in some form of discipline or termination, they will always say, "It's cause I green."
Let's say they hate you and would love to prove it were you to venture onto their turf.
Assume they are just as prejudiced against you as you are against them but nobody wants to address that.
Say they wear their clothes in a vulgar manner.
Let's say they aggravate and annoy you on a daily basis.
You know there are some in that race who are as fine as can be but they are vastly outnumbered by the worthless ones.
let's say you have come to regard them as parasites.
They work very hard to be hated. It's almost a shame not to.
Wouldn't you eventually come to be prejudiced against them?
Prejudice developed over years of association would not be the result of being raised that way or somehow the result of a lazy mind. (?)
It would be hard earned through years of aggravation and annoyance.
One thing is certain, skin color has nothing to do with it.