I would say so, yes. And we're lucky that it is, as such vitriolic hatred of one difference or another in a confined space could prove most devastating.
[He'd been through war on an intergalactic level where there were nebulas to hide in or space debri to deflect any weapons blast from. But here, there were no such thing.]
One could say that in light of avoiding something akin to the ancient Gladiator battles where many go in and only one can survive, we cannot afford to hold onto prejudices in this place.