Generalizations

[SPKrazy]

about what people in general are like based on the actions of a few

are usually wrong.

Why is that so hard to understand?

:shrug:

[Chan790]

1. Because people are stupid.

Sorry, had to do it. I can't pass up a shot on goal like that.

[CreekDog]

10. clever

:rofl:

[Gormy Cuss]

2. What specifically are you referencing?

I want to know details.
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Hi bud... I'm going to disappear for about a week and I expect you to either hold the fort or ransack it while I'm away.

[SPKrazy]

3. women men

those threads

okay

ransack it is

:rofl:

[Gormy Cuss]

4. I knew that I could count on you.

IBTL.
:P

[harmonicon]

5. maybe I'm a bigot...

but I still just can't stand ravenous cannibals. Especially the ones who are members of the "cannibals who love to eat short pudgie guys with glasses club". They're all a bunch of creepy fuckers, and I don't want to have anything to do with them ever again.

[SPKrazy]

7. Not all cannibals are bad people

they just don't have a good diet in your opinion

they'll eventually die from a prion disease very much like Creutchfield Jacob's disease, I forget the common term for it. People weren't made to eat each other (well I mean digest their whole bodies anyway :P )

Except the band Fine Young Cannibals, I'm not much of a fan of Cannibals either, in fact even not much of a fan of the band.

However, not all are bad I'm sure. There are some who like you and I probably, just want to enjoy life, eat their meat and potatoes and veggies and live to an old age (assuming they themselves aren't eaten or get ill)

So here's to cannibals :toast: they gotta eat too!

:crazy:

[JVS]

9. The Fine Young Cannibals suck ass!

I haven't had to say that in a long time.

[harmonicon]

16. No way, they totally rule.

They had a scooter gang in one of their videos.... I think it was the one for "Good Thing" - that was awesome.

[KitchenWitch]

6. All____ are _____

:P

[sasquatch]

8. _______ fundies _______ hypocrites

[datasuspect]

11. if it weren't for generalizations

how would you infer from classes?

you can make assumptions about certain things based on what you observe in most cases from something.

i always thought the qualifiers were presumed.

naturally, you get a finer scope on matters when you examine particulars, but you have to start somewhere.

[unpossibles]

12. there are two types of people

those who generalize and the ones who don't

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. Because it forces people to think beyond black/white

And people much would rather label to demonize than admit that the truth is often gray.

[Parche]

14. Are You Talking About People From Arkansas???

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

:hi:

[BeachBaby]

15. It's not that it's hard to understand....

but some people don't WANT to understand. "Understanding" requires process of thought, and unfortunately, WAY too many people don't want to have to think.

A few years ago, I got into it with a couple of black women. I was parked in my son's school parking lot, and the two women were standing behind my car. I got my son settled in the car, and then my infant son. The women were still standing there talking. I got in the car, started it, and put it in reverse. They still didn't move. So, I got out of the car and simply said "Excuse me - I gotta back my car out - could you move a little to the left or right?" They just looked at me. As soon as I turned to get back in the car, I hear "Cracker". I turned back around, and said "What did you just say?" And the one woman says "Just stating the obvious". Huh.

So I asked them both "What did I say or do that would cause you to react to me that way?" They said nothing.

So then I said "I don't know why you're thinking of me that way. I politely asked you to move so that I can get my car out. I have to take my baby to the doctor. How has this become a racial issue?"

The one woman answered "Ask your grandparents." WTF!!!!

So I said "Well, my grandparents are dead, so I can't ask them anything; what in the hell do my grandparents have to do with this?"

She says "They have EVERYTHING to do with how we look at people LIKE YOU."

I said "Well, I'm not sure how you can know who I am by my appearance, but my one set of grandparents came to the US from Poland in the 1930s, and the other set came to the US from Germany in the 1920s. My German grandmother was a servant to a wealthy family in Philadelphia, while my German grandfather delivered milk. My Polish grandmother wove rugs with a loom, while my Polish grandfather worked in the coalmines in PA, eventually being killed in a mine collapse. My German grandmother was raped by her boss when she was still a teenager. None of my grandparents finished school because they had to help support the family. They all had to work their tails off for everything they ever owned.

So you're telling me now, that you apparently knew my grandparents. This is interesting to me. What did my grandparents ever do to you, your parents, or your grandparents?"

The two women said NOTHING. They just stared at me.

So I know ALL TOO WELL what you're saying, SouthPaw. Because I am a white woman with long blonde hair and green eyes, in their minds I am someone, or part of someone, who took part in segregation and slavery. This level of gross generalizations is the very reason why biases of all kinds exist today.