Now that I think about xenophobia and racist stereotypes, I think I can see why even positive stereotypes are bad.

    • Munrock ☭
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      7 months ago

      The former is a form of divide-and-rule mentality (like the British empire marking certain ‘races’ as ‘martial races’ and effectively creating a racial heirarchy), the latter is objectification, fetishization and yes fearmongering to leverage human nature as a way to make racism part of culture.

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      7 months ago

      I don’t know about fear mongering, because that’s quite specific, but those ideas were deployed by racists in order to further their own racist agendas.