Counting only to two

[Wilson Gray]

An *excellent* micromini-essay on the feeling, arnold!

WRT the Model Minority, I must admit to just the tee-nine-shee-est bit
of schadenfreude. ;-)

-Wilson

On 4/19/07, Arnold M. Zwicky <zwicky at csli.stanford.edu> wrote:
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> On Apr 19, 2007, at 8:32 AM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> > What I had to say about Gypsies wasn't meant to be funny. The fact of
> > the matter is that stereotypes are all too often extensions of
> > reality. A recent unfortunate example is the shootings at VA Tech. I
> > was deathly afraid that the shooter would turn out to be black. When
> > it became clear that he was *not* some crack-crazed, black street thug
> > who'd lost what was left of his mind after he was finally dumped by
> > the naive, white-liberal, teen coed that he'd been pimping off of, a
> > great weight was lifted from my shoulders.
>
> well, now korean-americans are sweatin' real bad.
>
> one of the things that comes with being in a stigmatized group is
> that Every Individual Stands for the Whole Group.  so when things go
> bad, that just shows what "those people" are like.  to take examples
> from my own world: the gay kid who strikes back at harassers with a
> gun shows that gays are mentally unstable; ditto the gay mass
> murderer, the gay pedophile, etc.  when a well-known gay couple
> breaks up, that shows that gay people can't maintain relationships.
> and so on.  every such event is dismaying to lgbt people.
>
> arnold
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