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6/17/2011 12:36:25 PM EDT
At what point can you quit calling something a stereotype, and start calling it fact?
6/17/2011 12:38:24 PM EDT
[#1]
When the stereotype doesn't involve a protected group/minority.
6/17/2011 12:39:31 PM EDT
[#2]
When statistics give you a 67% success rate.
6/17/2011 12:39:50 PM EDT
[#3]
Quoted:
When the stereotype doesn't involve a protected group/minority.


yep, this
6/17/2011 12:39:57 PM EDT
[#4]
Never.
"Martians are retarded" is a stereotype.
"83.4% of Martians are retarded" is a fact
6/17/2011 12:40:24 PM EDT
[#5]
When all the libtards are jailed?
6/17/2011 12:41:08 PM EDT
[#6]
Quoted:
Never.
"Martians are retarded" is a stereotype.
"83.4% of Martians are retarded" is a fact


Most Martians are retarded?  Stereotype or fact?
6/17/2011 12:41:35 PM EDT
[#7]
When there are no exceptions to the rule.
6/17/2011 12:41:47 PM EDT
[#8]
Quoted:
Never.
"Martians are retarded" is a stereotype.
"83.4% of Martians are retarded" is a fact


Yep. Now if you're asking when is it OK to treat stereotypes as facts.... Well that one's on you.
6/17/2011 12:41:51 PM EDT
[#9]
Quoted:
Never.
"Martians are retarded" is a stereotype.
"83.4% of Martians are retarded" is a fact


this.  

tea partiers are racists is a stereotype.  if you found some people in the tea party that were racist, would that make it a 'fact'?
6/17/2011 12:45:16 PM EDT
[#10]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Never.
"Martians are retarded" is a stereotype.
"83.4% of Martians are retarded" is a fact


Most Martians are retarded?  Stereotype or fact?


Fact. It is accepted by 83.4% of people that most means >= 83.4%
6/17/2011 12:48:09 PM EDT
[#11]
I don't know, but I love stereotypes of all kinds.  When I go to the county fair, it makes my day to see an obese woman eating deep fried food with a 130 lb guy at her side wearing a stained wife beater with a bad tattoo on his neck.
6/17/2011 12:48:59 PM EDT
[#12]
What about ditching "stereotype" in  favor of "trend"?....

I mean, you can't REALLY say "all libs are crazy" but they DO "TREND"(lol) to run that way...
6/17/2011 12:49:39 PM EDT
[#13]
Fact: 100% of retards are retarded.
6/17/2011 12:49:50 PM EDT
[#14]
Quoted:
Never.
"Martians are retarded" is a stereotype.
"83.4% of Martians are retarded" is a fact




Fuck you.

6/17/2011 12:50:06 PM EDT
[#15]
Quoted:
When there are no exceptions to the rule.


That can't work.  There's always exceptions to the rule.

For example, "Mormons are good people."

You are mostly right.  They are.  But they aren't ALL good people, so is saying "Mormons are good people" a stereotype?

Please note:  I was just using Mormons as an example.  I'm thinking of a whole different group of people in the OP.
6/17/2011 12:52:00 PM EDT
[#16]
First post and all that.
6/17/2011 12:54:11 PM EDT
[#17]
When it is supported by FBI crime satissics   (clutches purse closer to body as colored folks enter elevator)
6/17/2011 12:54:29 PM EDT
[#18]
All stereotypes are strongly rooted in reality.



Though they may not be universal, they are close enough for me...
6/17/2011 12:55:03 PM EDT
[#19]
Everytime I start thinking a sterotype is a fact, something or somebody proves me wrong.

6/17/2011 12:55:36 PM EDT
[#20]
It will stop as soon as all Texans stop wearing cowboy hats, drilling for oil, and naming their first born JR.
6/17/2011 12:56:19 PM EDT
[#21]


Unless there's no variation at all, stereotyping is going to be inaccurate.


6/17/2011 12:57:29 PM EDT
[#22]
The sky is blue.





Except right now it is gray. And sometimes its purple or orange or black.



That doesn't make, "The sky is blue," false.
6/17/2011 1:01:22 PM EDT
[#23]
Quoted:
The sky is blue.


Except right now it is gray. And sometimes its purple or orange or black.

That doesn't make, "The sky is blue," false.


Yeah, what is implied/inferred matters.

"Martians are retarded"  "I didn't say ALL Martians are retarded, you just took it that way, you are the xenophobe!"
Those exchanges are always fun
6/17/2011 1:04:57 PM EDT
[#24]
Quoted:
The sky is blue.


Except right now it is gray. And sometimes its purple or orange or black.

That doesn't make, "The sky is blue," false.


Yes it does, when the sky isn't blue.
6/17/2011 1:07:03 PM EDT
[#25]
When it applies to white, christian, conservative men.
6/17/2011 1:07:58 PM EDT
[#26]



Quoted:


When statistics give you a 67% success rate.


87%

 
6/17/2011 1:12:35 PM EDT
[#27]
If it's factual enough to bet on, and win most of the time; I'm good.



6/17/2011 1:23:31 PM EDT
[#28]
When the facts are relief printing plates.
6/17/2011 2:43:45 PM EDT
[#29]
About 30 years ago.
6/17/2011 2:45:08 PM EDT
[#30]
I am sitting at a bar in Ohio when this "fella" down the way orders....

Speed
6/17/2011 6:14:13 PM EDT
[#31]
3/4 of all people on earth make up 75% of the population.