Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Stereotypes

  • A Groundless Stereotype About Stereotypes

    Not all stereotypes are negative; some are positive. And not all stereotypes lack a fundamentum in re; some are based in reality. It is a stereotype both negative and without a foundation in reality that all stereotypes lack a foundation in reality.

  • ‘Liberals,’ Conservatives and Stereotypes

    Yesterday I said that an infallible mark of a 'liberal' or 'progressive' is a refusal to distinguish legal and illegal immigration. Another infallible mark is the refusal of 'liberals' or so-called 'progressives' to admit that there is truth in some stereotypes, that some of them have a basis in reality, and are not the product…