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Originally Posted by MoonlitSunshine
Rubato, I wish you luck in your quest to rid the world of assumptions, but it simply aint happening. Stereotypes do exist for a reason, but that said I would not assume a stereotype was true unless I had personal experience to back up that stereotype. We simply have to make assumptions in order to get along. For example, you assume that you can make any kind of non-PC jokes around someone who has made a non-PC joke before. You make assumptions based on everything you know about a person all the time, in order to gauge how you interact with them. If we didn't, we'd have to be so careful about everything that it would simply be ridiculous.
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The Irish were assumed to be all thieving drunks, if you were refused entry into a shop because you were Irish would you feel discriminated against? Of course people will still assume, but just because a problem is hard to get rid of doesn't make it is so virtuous in itself. There is simply no excuse for assuming anything about someone before you've met them.