A 'liberal moment'

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.

Tagging

I thought I’d better belatedly respond to being tagged by Michael Cadwallader. Apparently the tradition of tagging is that:

"People who get tagged need to write a blog entry of their own 6 weird things as well as stating this rule clearly! Three people need to be tagged and their names listed. Finally a comment needs to be left on each tagged person's blog..."

Six odd points of trivia about me:

1.Unlike Mr Cadwallader, I have low caffeine tolerance and would probably be jumping off the walls if I had 7 cups of coffee. I usually get by on beer and chocolate bars (not together of course).

2. I like finding obscure music on the Internet such as the Continental progressive rock bands Paatos, Anekdoten and Townscream.

3. However, I strongly dislike Icelandic singer Bjork, due her popularity with fashionable liberals, and the fact she is completely atonal.

4. I spend too much time trying to do childish 12th Man style impersonations of iconic cricket umpires (I do a reasonable Tony Greig). Apologies to any North American readers that hate cricket.

5. I occasionally day dream about being a politically incorrect 1970s business executive with a well stocked drinks cabinet. (nothing like a scotch on the rocks while discussing oil prices at the office).

6. On a technophobia scale where 1 is low and 10 is extremely high, I’m about an 8.75.

I would like to tag the highly articulate, but self-effacing Dennis Dale, numerate maverick Half Sigma and newcomer Taboo Truth.