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He is free to do what ever he wants but I find nothing reasonable in generalization that reduced complex individuals into two bits of information, skin and gend
by belorn 7y ago
He is free to do what ever he wants but I find nothing reasonable in generalization that reduced complex individuals into two bits of information, skin and gender. To quote Carl Sagan, reducing people down to single bits of information is intellectual laziness.
"Ethnic groups are stereotyped, the citizens of other nations and religions are stereotyped, the genders and sexual preferences are stereotyped, people born in various times of the year are stereotyped (Sun-sign astrology), and occupations are stereotyped. The most generous interpretation ascribes it to a kind of intellectual laziness: instead of judging people on their individual merits and deficits, we concentrate on one or two bits of information about them, and then place them in a small number of previously constructed pigeonholes.
This saves the trouble of thinking, at the price in many cases of committing a profound injustice. It also shields the stereotyper from contact with the enormous variety of people, the multiplicity of ways of being human. Even if stereotyping were valid on average, it is bound to fail in many individual cases: human variation runs to bell-type curves. There's an average value of any quality, and smaller numbers of people running off in both extremes."