>You say this kind of stuff out of one side of your mouth
>and out of the other you talk about "groups that have a higher
>propensity to commit crime." That's classic rationalizing of "emotive"
>fear.
>
>[WS:] Typical leftist arrogance - knowing better what is on someone else's
>mind. You seem to be pissed that I do not share your view of the dregs of
>society and use every opportunity to snipe at me for that reason.
Hilarious. With one breath you accuse me of "knowing better what is on someone else's mind" and with the next you claim to know what's on my mind. Do you really not notice things like that? I'm basing what I said on your own words quoted below. And don't flatter yourself. I'm less interested in your sharing my views than I am in calling you on your crap.
>Stereotype is a cognitive response to emotional reaction to something that
>may pose a threat 9which is pretty much reflexive). It is basically an
>attempt to reason in a situation when sufficient information is not
>available. You see a members of an ethnic group that is known to have a
>higher probability of committing a crime. Your automatic emotional response
>is fear, which your "thinking brain" (cortex) is trying to resolve by
>utilizing information available to it. An in most situations there is
>insufficient information - since we have no way of knowing who the person in
>question is and what his intentions are. Consequently the brain may use the
>only information available - memorized hearsay - and that often leads to the
>formation of a stereotype.
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