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This is a difficult issue, because it's very human to over-generalize. "White conservatives" is a generalization that characterizes many individuals unjustly. Similarly, some people use the category "black person" [or some obnoxious synonym] as a generalized pejorative label. Rudyard Kipling wrote about "the white man's burden". President Woodrow Wilson, that Progressive icon, was no better. It's the way people are and probably will continue to be.

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Jun 4, 2023·edited Jun 4, 2023

Kipling wrote in the age of empire—"the sun never sets..." and the like.

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And President Obama degraded his maternal grandmother as a "typical white woman". Over-generalizations persist.

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She was. Lol!

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Jun 4, 2023·edited Jun 4, 2023

"Bad analogies are like corn." —Scott Adams ("Dilbert" creator and recent cancelee)

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