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> Is this a bad thing if it's accurate? Yes. That's exactly how discrimination works. Stereotypes reinforce themselves through the ways we treat people.
by DarkWiiPlayer 4y ago
> Is this a bad thing if it's accurate?
Yes. That's exactly how discrimination works. Stereotypes reinforce themselves through the ways we treat people.
- denton-scratch 4y ago> That's exactly how discrimination works. Discrimination means treating things differently because they're different. You seem to be assuming that all discrimination is bad; but the "bad discrimination" is discriminating based on irrelevant differences. > Stereotypes reinforce themselves through the ways we treat people. Whatever; I don't understand the sentence. Perhaps I should have studied sociology! But a "stereotype" is like a cardboard cutout; it's a super-simplified (ands therefore false) representation of a difference. I don't know what stereotypes have to do with discrimination, unless somehow we're suddenly talking about racial discrimination, or gender discrimination, or some other unjustified discrimination.
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- kube-system 4y agoPeople are individuals, not averages of everyone. To assume someone is a statistical extrapolation of other people is stereotyping, regardless of how frequently it is correct.