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Stereotyping: Simple Answers for Simple Minds....in a very complex universe.
If one example of A does B, then all examples of A do B.
This is especially true if I already like A and B, and even more so true if I dislike A and B.
This kind of thinking allows people who don't like school teachers to now conclude that all school teachers molest children, a la JonBenet Ramsey.
A more honest depiction would be, "Karr, who occasionally made money teaching school, did blah-blah-blah."
When we go for the shortcuts of stereotyping, our view of reality winds up a bloody mess.
Occupations, religions, political view points, actions, evaluations of those around us, all go into giving the complex definition of who we are, but no one of them by itself rules the roost. They have to be looked at as a constellation, a being made up of many (hopefully) bright points, which are only whole when taken in together.
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