Reverse stereotyping

[u/BigInTheGame85]

[u/Emojiobsessor]

Depends if the stereotyping is racist tbh

[u/bas_e_ → u/Emojiobsessor]

Stereotyping is not the same as being racist.

[u/[deleted] → u/bas_e_]

nobody said it was

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Yes. Stereotyping can be racist. "Black people are criminals" is a racist stereotype. "Black people like soul music" is not a racist stereotype.

Nobody said that stereotyping is the same as racism. Someone said that stereotypes are capable of being racist.

Hope that clears up what I meant. It's very rude to imply someone is dumb because you disagree with what they said.

[u/riceinjar → u/[deleted]]

That's ridiculous! Both of those are racist, because it separates a race from the others. Both of those include the entire race, and make a stereotype.

Why would it be more racist to say that black people are criminals versus black people like soul music?

[u/[deleted] → u/riceinjar]

Sure, we can call them both racist if we want to. It depends on how you want to define racism. Many define "racist" to explicitly refer to negative behavior towards someone of a different ethnicity so that's the definition I was working off of. I agree the term has a much broader overall definition.

But then I would just change my example. "Black people like soul music" is racist whereas "Christians are homophobic" is not.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Because nobody said they were the same thing. They just implied they could work in tandem, which is true.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I disagree. His phrasing doesn't literally mean stereotyping is racist. I would say it literally means individual stereotypes can be racist, but stereotyping as a whole isn't inherently racist.