Comment on Open thread, Oct. 5 - Oct. 11, 2015

Wed, 14 Oct 2015 20:44:20 GMT

If you already have an opinion on someone you've just met, based on appearances only, before you've bothered getting to know them, you're a bigot.

This is what Baysian logic requires that you do.

If you believe all members of an arbitrarily defined category of people behave the same way or think the same way or can be expected to respond in the same way, you're a bigot.

I don't believe I've seen anyone do this. (Hint: sex, race, religion, etc., aren't arbitrary categories).

If there's a group of people you especially like to hate, you're a bigot.

I have murderers and child-molesters.

If you're an identity essentialist, you're a bigot.

Ok, now define "identity essentialism", I'm have a hard time coming up with a definition that's not largely true.

If you believe there are "superior" and "inferior" classes of people, you're an über bigot.

Does it matter if this is actually true for the metric under discussion.

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