>1. Stone racists who hate immigrants, especially brown ones. This is one of the biggest, most common mistakes a lot of well-meaning people make regarding thei

>1. Stone racists who hate immigrants, especially brown ones. This is one of the biggest, most common mistakes a lot of well-meaning people make regarding their mental model of their society. Not that this group isn't significant, but that the author doesn't go on to identify the milder version of that group, which may be large. It's so easy and obvious as a regular idealistic person, who values justice and advanced society, to look at the entire group of people who, e.g., have bitter opinions on immigration, and under-categorize them into one big group of "these are the people who just plain hate other races". Yeah, there are a shocking number of those people, but I think we may be surprised by how many other people in that group we're making have some amount of reasonableness or understandability in their opinions. In the end, the source of all opinion and action is the human experience, and a lot of humans are having objectively negative experiences with immigration that have nothing to do with their own morality. This applies to pretty much every negative opinion we all have of one another, but this is a salient one.