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Ahh yes, historicity masquerading as evidence of inherent attributes strikes again.

• freen 6y ago
  Stereotypes of serfs were largely accurate in feudal societies.
• rbecker 6y ago
  Nowhere does the article claim stereotypes are inherent. A common tactic - when confronted with evidence you don't like, switch to arguing that it doesn't support a stronger claim you made up, without acknowledging that it does support the original claim.
  • freen 6y ago
    The original claim, stereotypes are accurate is effectively tautological given broad based, systemic reinforcement of said stereotypes. I was, however, responding to claims upthread that were, in fact, claiming inherent attributes were responsible for accurate stereotypes. Why are you more concerned with my statement that you believe misconstrues the original research rather than the obvious racists above who did make a claim not supported in the paper. Why?
    • rbecker 6y ago
      > I was, however, responding to claims upthread that were, in fact, claiming inherent attributes were responsible for accurate stereotypes. No, you responded to the article. If you wanted to respond to some specific comment you should have replied to it directly. > Why are you more concerned with my statement that you believe misconstrues the original research rather than the obvious racists above who did make a claim not supported in the paper. Why? Spare me. Even the obvious racist (whose comment is dead and already has many replies rebutting it) didn't make the claim you attribute to them. So you rebutted a claim they didn't make, in a separate comment thread, with no hint in your own comment that you were responding to anything other than the article. Then you should not be surprised you were misunderstood.