Posted on 09/12/2013 10:17:20 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Great piece. Stereotypes don’t make up themselves.
The Onion was great until Comedy Central got involved in the early 2000’s. They used to skewer a lot of sacred cows (Goolge “very special forces”) but around 2002 or 2003 it became a predictable, unoriginal, leftist bore. Conincidentally, the Onion was founded at University of Wisconson Madison.
“It would seem, in light of these and similar figures, that stereotyping, while perhaps not a pleasant practice to admit to, is at least grounded in reality. Or would it be better if we pretended that such statistics didn’t exist?”
The majority here in the US would prefer to ignore the statistics. To acknowledge them would surely make you a racist. The thing is, I just don’t care if someone calls me a racist or not.
Oh, BTW son, you can kiss that PHD goodbye.
Exceptionally well-written.
Stereotyping is how our powerful but limited brains process the infinite complexity of reality. See my tagline.
Excellent article.
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