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Stereotype is probably the correct word, but it's overloaded here. Stereotyping someone by something that they did not choose is a gateway to prejudice: skin c
by carbocation 8y ago
Stereotype is probably the correct word, but it's overloaded here.
Stereotyping someone by something that they did not choose is a gateway to prejudice: skin color, eye color, place of birth.
Stereotyping someone by something that they did choose may be very useful for making inference about them, because it is a revealed preference: clothing tastes, food preferences, etc.
- inetknght 8y agoStereotyping someone by something that you assume they chose is also a gateway to prejudice. @NeedMoreTea said it right by mentioning cases where someone might not have chosen their particular attire.
- sosborn 8y agoIt works on a macro level though. You have to be ok with idea that the stereotype isn’t 100% perfect, it’s just used to get a majority of your target market.
- ben_w 8y agoOver the last two years, I have witnessed many demonstrations of normal people totally failing to understand “group x tends to be more y” — “but”, I have seen many retort, “I’m x and not y!”, as if the statement had instead been “all x are y”.
- lupire 8y agoYeah, you have to be OK with the idea that you are part of system that has systemic discriminatory effects. It still stinks.
- WillPostForFood 8y agoIt also begs the question of whether we have any more free will in fashion choices than we do skin color.
- inetknght 8y agoI can see an argument for that but I don't think it's a valid assertion. People can change opinions. They can't so easily change their skin color.
- WillPostForFood 8y agoYou can change opinions, but it is unclear whether you have free will over the change.
- beginningguava 8y agoIt's just pattern recognition, we have it because it's good for survival. Maybe that grizzly bear is nice but I'm not going to try and pet it to find out because the stereotype is that it will rip me to shreds
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- deogeo 8y agoLooks to me like both are prejudice (even if applied to things usually not called such), and both may be useful.
- threatofrain 8y agoWhy is one prejudice and the other inference?