If you use the 13% statistic to justify fear of minorities, than you can't complain when people use the fact that men commit 80% of violent crimes to stereotypically act fearful around men

TL;DR Not stereotyping isn’t a “solution.”

I think people seriously misunderstand stereotypes and stereotyping. Imagine you’re told to guess 100 times which of two people randomly selected from the pool of all Americans has committed a crime. all you know is one is white and one is black, and your goal is guess correctly more than half the time. An effective strategy would be to guess the black person every time.

Its like that one clip from Hollywood squares where the question is “which country has the most doctors” and the guy says “the country with the most Jews. Israel.” He stereotyped because Jews are highly represented in that field. And he was right!

In neither situation is anyone being an asshole or purposefully hurtful. They just want to be right over half the time. And that’s what stereotyping accomplishes.

Going back to black people and crime statistics, it’s really irresponsible to think “don’t stereotype” is a solution to anything. The reality is there’s an enormous amount of contributing factors to the situation and “not stereotyping” is stopping the conversation before it’s even begun. We have to acknowledge the ugly truth if we want to have any sort of meaningful positive impact.

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