This doesn't actually excuse the lumping of people together, and doesn't make the generalized observations about those groups of people any more or less true...

This doesn't actually excuse the lumping of people together, and doesn't make the generalized observations about those groups of people any more or less true... Anyways, this bit of real politic is completely immaterial to my original point, which is that it's stupid and inconsistent to complain about other people's complaining. In particular because your observation about perception works the other way as well.