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> Those categories are still be a useful heuristic for trying to find people who are more likely to share certain attributes or who have had certain life experi
by slibhb 5y ago
> Those categories are still be a useful heuristic for trying to find people who are more likely to share certain attributes or who have had certain life experiences.
In other words, prejudice is a "useful heuristic".
- danShumway 5y ago> In other words, prejudice is a "useful heuristic". If you don't see any difference at all between community and othering, or if you think we need a single universal metric that defines whether categories are being used for evil in every single scenario, then I don't think you understood what I was saying about fuzziness. Categories are a neutral tool, it's how they're used and the effects of their usage that determines whether or not an action involving them is problematic -- just like every single other tool in existence.