Ricki Yasha TarrI truly wish there was a way people could learn their lesson without the rest of us having to go to school.
Pistolenkind@RickiTarr Maybe they should just build the wall he wanted anyway, but with the Trump voters on one side and the others on the other. A kind of utopia/dystopia.
Patch You Up@Pistolenkind @RickiTarr Put all the non-voters and protest voters on the side with the Trump voters and I'm in.
RRB@Jumpmed @Pistolenkind @RickiTarr Arab voters in Michigan also voted for trump because they hate gays, too.
@rrb @Jumpmed @RickiTarr Some Arab voters, not Arab voters. And not because they are Arabs, but because they are religious fanatics. That is exactly what we should emphasize, not their origins. Fanatical Christians have the same hate fantasies. Let's not make it racist. Thank you.
Mike@Pistolenkind @rrb @Jumpmed @RickiTarr That's 100% true, but it is also true about all of the generalized categories we put people in including white men and white women.
When 75% of a category acts in a particular way, it seems hard for people to recognize the other 25% (which when the category contains millions, is still a large number of people).
What it means is that if you encounter a random someone in that category, there's a 75% chance they're one of the people acting in that particular way. But you should still treat them as an individual and find out which they are.
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@Pistolenkind @rrb @Jumpmed @RickiTarr
We lump too many people together and give them a single motivation 😞
Statistically that may work, and it may help political messaging, but I hope we can do better in conversations here.
Getting off my soapbox now.
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econads@mlippert
You're not wrong my dude. It bothers me as well, and it seems something increasingly used also by progressives and the left, whereas in former times it was a mostly right wing thing. Or maybe I was living in a bubble.