{"id":5093,"date":"2017-10-31T16:11:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T16:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/10\/31\/liberals-conservatives-and-stereotypes\/"},"modified":"2017-10-31T16:11:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T16:11:01","slug":"liberals-conservatives-and-stereotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/10\/31\/liberals-conservatives-and-stereotypes\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Liberals,’ Conservatives and Stereotypes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 of mindless bigotry.  We conservatives, however, being fundamentally sane, admit the obvious: there are accurate stereotypes and inaccurate stereotypes. An example of an inaccurate stereotype is the black watermelon stereotype<\/a> according to which black folk are disproportionately fond of watermelon.  Examples of accurate stereotypes below.<\/span><\/p>\n

It occurs to me that our 'liberal' pals can be taxed with swallowing a negative, inaccurate meta-stereotype: they falsely think that all stereotypes are inaccurate and of course 'racist'! What bigots these 'liberals' be!<\/span><\/p>\n

Lee Jussim<\/a> gets to the heart of the matter with the following quiz. I got every answer right. See how you do. Answers below the fold.<\/span><\/p>\n

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1. Which group is most likely to commit murder?<\/span>
A. Men<\/span>
B. Women<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Older people are generally more __________ and less __________ than adolescents. <\/span>
A. Conscientious; open to new experiences <\/span>
B. Neurotic; agreeable <\/span><\/p>\n

3. In which ethnic\/racial group in the US are you likely to find the highest proportion of people who supported Democratic presidential candidates in 2008 and 2012?<\/span>
A. Whites <\/span>
B. African Americans<\/span><\/p>\n

4. People in the US strongly identifying themselves as ___________ are most likely to attend church on Sunday.<\/span>
A. Conservative<\/span>
B. Liberal<\/span><\/p>\n

5. On 24 December 2004, a father and his three kids wandered around New York City around 7pm, looking for a restaurant, but found most places closed or closing. At the same time, his wife performed a slew of chores around the house. This family is most likely:<\/span>
A. Catholic<\/span>
B. Baptist<\/span>
C. Jewish<\/span>
D. Pagan\/Animist<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The answers, of course, are A, A, B, A, and C.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you didn't get all of them right, then I will put you down as lacking experience of the world. The world, mind you, not your utopian, John-Lennon-type fantasy of what you would like the world to be.<\/span><\/p>\n

Corresponding to each of the above examples is a true generic statement and an accurate stereotype.That's painfully obvious, isn't it? But then it is painfully obvious that 'progressives' are being willfully stupid in denying the obvious.<\/span><\/p>\n

To be fair, the  willful stupidity of 'progressives' is motivated in part by good intentions: they fear that accurate stereotypes can be used to oppress and denigrate people. <\/span><\/p>\n

For example, it is true that women as a group are more nurturing, conciliatory, cooperative, family-oriented, averse to heated disagreement, etc. than men as a group. Corresponding to this true generic statement is  the accurate stereotype of women as more nurturing, etc. <\/span><\/p>\n

It is not only an accurate stereotype, but a positive one as well. Obviously, it is good to have a lot of people in society that are nurturing, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

Vicious leftists, however, who have no qualms about slandering their opponents, think that the only motive a conservative could have for  pointing out the platitudes above is to keep women tied to their stoves, blacks on the plantation, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

It's a lie and they know it. They are not good people. That is what you have to understand.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading “‘Liberals,’ Conservatives and Stereotypes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,458,646],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-generic-statements","category-stereotypes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}