• aelwero@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    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?

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      11 months ago

      What this moronic, completely asinine “argument” intentionally neglects to consider is that being a douchebag is not the same as being born to specific parents. No one here gives a flying fuck about your campaign to discourage votes for Biden.

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      11 months ago

      “Judging me for what I choose is equivalent to me judging others for what they are!”

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        11 months ago

        Except I’m specifically talking about the specific act of stereotyping them…

        Do you judge people who propagate stereotypes as being good people? (Apparently if the stereotype is “the other guys” it’s totally righteous…? I disagree)

        Being shitty to shitty people doesn’t exempt you from being shitty… The end result isn’t a shitty person and a good person, it’s two shitty people.

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      11 months ago

      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

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        11 months ago

        It’s not even a logical comparison. They say a sign of intelligence is making good analogies…

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        11 months ago

        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…

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          11 months ago

          it’s a little bit more objective that “claiming moral superiority”, as one side does a lot more harm than the other

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            11 months ago

            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.

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      11 months ago

      Ah yes, a copy-pasta about trucks is literally the same as oppressing women and black people. The long and brutal history of truck owner marginalization must be stopped!

      Also jokes on you, I don’t fit your stereotype of being an American on the internet.

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      11 months ago

      If you have a lifted truck, with clean mud tires and chrome, with no scratches on it, I will make fun of you and your fake ass.

      I won’t feel bad about it.