The other day I made the foolish mistake of leaving my car overnight in a relatively rough neighbourhood. Sure enough, the next day I returned to find one of the windows smashed in.
Against my better judgment, I ignored vaild stereotypes abouts the area's inhabitants, and made an overly optimistic assessment of the chances of my car getting broken into.
In other words, I behaved the way left -liberals say people should do and suffered accordingly.
According to left-liberals, stereotypes are destructive and inaccurate generalisations that make people's lives worse.
In reality though, stereotypes are useful generalisations that help people minimise trouble in their lives and make rational decisions. People develop stereotypes through real world experiences of the type I have just commented on.
Left-liberals seem to believe (without solid evidence) that stereotypes cause people to behave in an unjust, cruel and inconsiderate way to people of other classes, cultures and ethnicities.
If people are unduly cruel and inconsiderate to others it is because of deeper reasons, such as genes, and or, a lousy upbringing, and not because of stereotypes they have supposedly picked up in the media.
I challange liberals to try and get by without stereotypes and see how their lives turn out.
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A friend, and good liberal, was driving through south central L.A. once, craving a cigarette but leery of her surroundings.
She chastised herself for her stereotyping and stopped at a convenience store. The moment she got out of the car a hoodlum was bearing down on her; he then wrestled her purse away.
She took the lesson to heart: damn cigarette companies and their addictive products!
Good intentions reap their own reward!
You posted about something very similar a few weeks ago, that liberals use PC rhetoric as a status symbol. Think about it: stereotypes are true, generally. Those who are able to pretend they don't incorporate stereotypes into their decision making are handicapping themselves. Now, in terms of evolutionary psychology, what is the best way to display status and fitness? Overt displays of wealth that act as a handicap. Same thing with not following stereotypes. The more a liberal disagrees with stereotypes, the more liberal respect he is accorded, because it is indicative of a large amount of expendable value.
Taboo, I'd guess it's a bit like the classic 'conspicious consumption' theory of Therstein Veblen.
In Veblen's theory, successful people spend money on impractical but flashy cars, clothes etc to show others that they can afford to be wasteful. The Liberal version is 'conspicious compassion.'
However, in the real world most liberals still have to maintain a few realistic views.
For example, they will have have to comprimise and admit to themselves that such and such a place is a bad area and try to avoid it, but they will be careful not to be overly critical of it inhabitants in discussions with other liberals.
Right on. Veblen identified awhile ago what sexual selection is helping us understand today.
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