“….isms” begin with generalisation

……those Jews

……those blacks

……those gypsies

the minute we generalise in this manner, we begin to display our bias.

if you are angered by a Jewish person or a black person (that is why the recent story relating to actor, Liam Neeson faced some backlash but could have been a lot more, had he not been one of those who tend to be upfront) or any other grouping, take umbrage with the individual. Visiting your anger on an entire group of people is just an excuse to be horrid

unfortunately, this is where society is today. we generalise. ‘migrants’, any type, regardless of their situation, are now tarred with how illegal migrants are perceived.

the ongoing furore regarding Kanye or Ye West. “Jews” does he know every Jew? but clearly, it is a mental health issue. he can’t possibly be right in the head.

it is the same problem affecting policing the the US and many other countries, where we write off certain groups and build up an image of what we automatically expect a drug dealer to look like (but we forget about the buyer…), we automatically expect a whole group to be one way or the other, and that ideology becomes accepted

such generalisation needs to end..