Post by flimp (INTJ) on Sept 25, 2018 3:18:42 GMT
below are some of my rambling thoughts. I may have used some other peoples ideas or come up with my own. Its hard to say at this point...
I live in a dorm in college and there was a dorm event where we popped balloons depicting stereotypes. Some examples include all Muslims are terrorists, women are emotional, etc etc. I think the main thrust of the event was to promote the idea that stereotyping is a poor tool for describing human groups. I agree that in many cases, stereotyping is not good. However that is because people do not know how to stereotype correctly. So, before we are able to stereotype correctly we need to define what a stereotype is and understand that stereotyping is a tool that can be used for good or for ill.
stereotyping can be defined as: an observation about similar behaviors present within a population.
So as an example, if you observe basketball players you will tend to notice that they are taller than the average person. So, that begs the question, why? Why are basketball players taller? And the answer has to do with selective pressures dictating tallness as a valuable trait and shortness as an undesirable trait. so when you see a short basketball player you have to understand that he had to to overcome his shortness.
Now in the aftermath of the Pop A Stereotype event I was listening to two of my friends agreeing that stereotyping is bad and implicitly saying that they are the "good conservatives." That good conservatives don't stereotype people. The problem with this mentality is two fold.
1) They are not living in the world as it is. People divide themselves into groups and those groups have distinct characteristics. Stereotyping, if used correctly, is a tool for understanding the characteristics of groups and why they are different than other groups.
2) Liberals have been using the idea that stereotypes are bad as a means to corral conservative minded people into accepting leftist doctrine as an a priori default in conservative thinking.
The dissident right needs to reclaim stereotyping as a useful tool for describing the world as it is without falling into the traps of misapplying stereotypes.
I live in a dorm in college and there was a dorm event where we popped balloons depicting stereotypes. Some examples include all Muslims are terrorists, women are emotional, etc etc. I think the main thrust of the event was to promote the idea that stereotyping is a poor tool for describing human groups. I agree that in many cases, stereotyping is not good. However that is because people do not know how to stereotype correctly. So, before we are able to stereotype correctly we need to define what a stereotype is and understand that stereotyping is a tool that can be used for good or for ill.
stereotyping can be defined as: an observation about similar behaviors present within a population.
So as an example, if you observe basketball players you will tend to notice that they are taller than the average person. So, that begs the question, why? Why are basketball players taller? And the answer has to do with selective pressures dictating tallness as a valuable trait and shortness as an undesirable trait. so when you see a short basketball player you have to understand that he had to to overcome his shortness.
Now in the aftermath of the Pop A Stereotype event I was listening to two of my friends agreeing that stereotyping is bad and implicitly saying that they are the "good conservatives." That good conservatives don't stereotype people. The problem with this mentality is two fold.
1) They are not living in the world as it is. People divide themselves into groups and those groups have distinct characteristics. Stereotyping, if used correctly, is a tool for understanding the characteristics of groups and why they are different than other groups.
2) Liberals have been using the idea that stereotypes are bad as a means to corral conservative minded people into accepting leftist doctrine as an a priori default in conservative thinking.
The dissident right needs to reclaim stereotyping as a useful tool for describing the world as it is without falling into the traps of misapplying stereotypes.
