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the way i see it all stereotypes which are imposed on a people are negative, the only potentially good stereotypes are ones the a people themselves chose to identify with.
Even then, "positive stereotypes" embraced by a community still cause a lot of harm, especially when those stereotypes originate outside the community. Like Asians being "model minorities" or Black men having "BBCs"
>Like Asians being “model minorities” or Black men having “BBCs”
I'm starting to think these tropes are white nationalist fearmongering.
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.
Divide and rule is fear mongering
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.
Asians being smart, with the implication that we are robots, walking talking calculators, etc.
I've often had a similar thought, for me the quintessential example is the spiritual indigenous person who is naive to the modern world, when in fact the group contains individuals of varying levels of spirituality and naivety, just like every group. While it is often well meaning trying to promote a 'positive' stereotype in response to racism is not especially helpful.
That is my white, cis, male take. I'd be interested in any minority opinions.
Asian cis male. i don't see how this type of convo is bad.
how does that work?
this post was submitted on 12 May 2024
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