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"I am driving a lifted DODGE RAM TRUCK"
"My lifted DODGE RAM TRUCK has BLINDING WHITE LED headlights positioned EXACTLY at EYE LEVEL. "
"I am currently TAILGATING you in the RIGHT LANE even though you’re going TWENTY MILES AN HOUR over the speed limit and the LEFT LANE is OPEN."
"There are MONSTER ENERGY and FOX RACING stickers on the rear windshield of my lifted DODGE RAM TRUCK."
"There are PERFECTLY CLEAN mud tires and MASSIVE CHROME RIMS on my lifted DODGE RAM TRUCK."
"I make THIRTY-ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS a year and thought that that was a WISE FINANCIAL DECISION."
"I bring cases of BUD LIGHT to girls at high school parties while my wife and children are at home."
"My lifted DODGE RAM TRUCK has a GUN RACK which holds the AR-15 that I bought at WAL-MART."
"YETI COOLERS kick ass!"
How does this differ from saying that women belong in the kitchen, or that being black means you rob people?
Stereotyping has, for my entire lifetime, until the past few years (trump I guess, until trump...), been something you'd only really see happening among the Republican types.
Now it's become almost an exclusively Dem thing...
I get the whole "statistically speaking" aspect (I have a LOT of neighbors with lifted ram trucks on very clean mud tires) of your comment, but that same logic is behind all the other stereotypes as well... How is yours good and theirs bad?
the first stereotype you mentioned is a lot more harmful, and targets minority groups or people that faced lots of oppression through history so there’s an existing power dynamic that they reinforce, whereas the classic truck driving republican is a much more represented group that has never faced historic discrimination.
Another reason is that politically, their right wing ideology is definitively also a lot more harmful to many people as the core of right wing ideology is power through oppression, and so mimicking the forms of oppression they enact on others is somewhat empowering for less represented and less powerful groups.
That’s my impression of it at least
It's not even a logical comparison. They say a sign of intelligence is making good analogies...
So it's not wrong to stereotype, as long as you can claim "moral superiority" while doing so?
I personally think that's been the narrative the entire time... All I can offer as an ambivalent is that it don't make it right, but at least your version is less wrong...
I suppose that is what we vote on these days though, whatever's the least fucky...
it’s a little bit more objective that “claiming moral superiority”, as one side does a lot more harm than the other
Except that it puts us all on two "teams" which just encourages hate. Yes, the red "team" is worse in every way, but unless we make personal connections on both sides as human beings we'll just keep fighting each other and the ruling class will walk right past with their gobs of money and influence. Petty name calling plays right in to that.
So moral inferiority then... If you prefer...
Bad faith arguers are so much easier to spot than you apparently think