2013-05-14, 06:50 PM
I wanted to post earlier but had class and now I see that, as usual, the discussion is sorta off-topic.
However, I think the disagreement some you have towards Justin's opinion is unjustified. His point, which comes off as racist, is valid, not for being rational, but because of our nature. We tend to associate things for many reasons, one of them, and the one that applies in this case, is survivability. We're always doing it and just because it's politically incorrect in some cases we won't stop doing it. It may be racist, it may be irrational but is one tool we need to make sense out of the world, out of other people.
I think it's pretty hypocrite to criticize that kind of association, just because it's politically incorrect, when we've been educated in doing similar or worse ones, ie: pretty people= good, ugly people= evil. And that's just one example, because people do it with anything.
In my case, I avoid people in the street that uses certain kind of clothes and have certain looks (usually poor people's looks) because I associate them with robbers. Sure, it seems as classicism but every time I've been mugged it's by someone that looks that way. Sure, I might be wrong sometimes, but I'm not idiotic and I won't take any chances; mainly because I don't like it when people rob me or because they can be dangerous. It's basically the same in this situation and, as Justin said, the kid should be prepared for such assumptions because it's dumb to think that people will stop doing them.
However, I think the disagreement some you have towards Justin's opinion is unjustified. His point, which comes off as racist, is valid, not for being rational, but because of our nature. We tend to associate things for many reasons, one of them, and the one that applies in this case, is survivability. We're always doing it and just because it's politically incorrect in some cases we won't stop doing it. It may be racist, it may be irrational but is one tool we need to make sense out of the world, out of other people.
I think it's pretty hypocrite to criticize that kind of association, just because it's politically incorrect, when we've been educated in doing similar or worse ones, ie: pretty people= good, ugly people= evil. And that's just one example, because people do it with anything.
In my case, I avoid people in the street that uses certain kind of clothes and have certain looks (usually poor people's looks) because I associate them with robbers. Sure, it seems as classicism but every time I've been mugged it's by someone that looks that way. Sure, I might be wrong sometimes, but I'm not idiotic and I won't take any chances; mainly because I don't like it when people rob me or because they can be dangerous. It's basically the same in this situation and, as Justin said, the kid should be prepared for such assumptions because it's dumb to think that people will stop doing them.