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What is wrong with stereotypes? Snakes are, at times, quite dangerous. Granted, not all snakes, but in terms of being risk-averse, and unaware of which snakes
by pizzafeelsright 3y ago
What is wrong with stereotypes?
Snakes are, at times, quite dangerous. Granted, not all snakes, but in terms of being risk-averse, and unaware of which snakes are quite possibly deadly, am I not, at least in my current ignorant state, best served to avoid all snakes?
Feel free to substitute "snakes" with any existing stereotype. I personally am a fan of "people who eat pizza with pineapple".
- chefandy 3y agoThere's a whole lot of information out there about the harm caused by stereotypes. Normally I tell people to look it up because it's not hard and I'm not your research assistant, but here's a freebie: "Are Greg and Emily More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal" is a mid-aughts study in which the authors sent out 5k job applications using fabricated equally-weighted resumes that were randomly assigned a stereotypically Black American or stereotypically white American name. Resumes attached to 'white' sounding names were fifty percent more likely to recieve a callback. Would you consider that a reasonable pan-industry attempt by employers to protect themselves from harm based entirely on someone's name?
- lawlessone 3y agoBad faith actor
- joshuahedlund 3y agoYour mistake is you're only thinking about it from the perspective of the stereotyper. Now think about the negative impact (career, legal system, etc) on the person being incorrectly stereotyped.