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Is it *ever* okay to negatively generalize people based on a group they have no control over belonging to (for a roughly neutral example, "red headed people get angry so fast")? || Is it okay for women to talk about how scared they are of men?

Yes || Yes
58.7%
Yes || No
4.4%
No || Yes
23.4%
No || No
13.5%

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Is it okay for people to talk about how afraid they are of black people?

3:37 AM · Dec 24, 2019

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Being, and talking about being, afraid of something is always ok. That's very different from saying that a group of people are all dangerous or what have you. One is a feeling the other is passing off bullshit as fact.

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Are they speaking from personal experience, or pushing a political narrative?

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Yes, because the dialogue that results from that could help that person resolve those fears. We have to stop being afraid of PC culture backlash and just start talking again.

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