[Jarvio]

Originally Posted by Robodog

This thread talks about minorities, or the 'groups' which the HMs belong to. This means seeing the HMs in a certain way.
Not judging the HMs as individuals, but judging them according to their 'type' or their 'category' (race, gender, sexuality etc).

This way of thinking is called collectivist thinking.

Collectivist thinking doesn't judge people as individuals, but instead judges everyone according to their type (their race, their gender, their sexual orientation etc).
Collectivists see all society not made up of individuals, but made up of 'groups'.

So instead of seeing John Barnes simply as 'John Barnes', collectivists would see him as 'a black man', or they'd see Ashley as 'a white woman', or see Shane J as 'a homosexual' etc etc

This type of thinking is a way of generalising people, and it usually comes with a judgement system for those generalisations, almost like a rating system.

So for example, 'racial collectivists' (such as the KKK or Black Lives Matter) would perceive then judge people according to their race, and would rate them accordingly:

Some people think blacks are the problem. Some think whites are the problem.
Some men are misogynists, some feminists hate men.
Jews, Muslims, Christians etc all have their divisions, their judgements of each other and their history of conflict.
Same with wars between nations.

It all comes from collectivist thinking.

Sometimes this collectivist thinking has good intentions, for example in order to have diversity people have to be perceived and judged not as individuals, but purely according to their racial type/gender/sexuality/religion etc in order to tick the boxes and meet the goals of diversity.

The irony being that, however well-intended, that is the same type of thinking as racism: to judge people according to their type and place them accordingly.

Is it healthy to see and separate us all off like this, to judge and rate us all in this way?

Is it not better to see us all as the individuals we are, regardless of our 'type'?

Surely it's better to remember the words of Martin Luther King:

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
Martin Luther King, Jr.


Individual thinking or Collectivist thinking?

YOU decide

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Yup.

Positive discrimination is discrimination nonetheless.

Although I know I can talk because I always want a man out first, but that's just my personal OCD thing lol. Which has been caused by years and years of women going first, which eventually pissed me off.