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Igel

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12. We often think that those we don't know are better or worse than those we don't know.
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 01:21 PM
Oct 2019

It's a kind of stereotyping.

Usually these days "stereotype" is like "discrimination," the only possible context is "racial". But we discriminate in all sorts of ways (it's often good, "to discriminate between healthy and unhealthy foods," for example) and stereotype constantly. When we assume all rich people are greedy or lazy, all (D) are virtuous, all Southerners racist, all Texans are "gun humpers" (as opposed to Northerner "blanket humpers," I guess).

You see how birds are brightly colored? At some point some group of female birds looked at the male birds and said, "We like bright blue this year. You dull blue and grey boy birds, you're gonna be incels. Buh-bye from the gene pool."

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