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Judy Cross's avatar

If Trump wants to take out the garbage in the US, why doesn't he start at the WH?

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Susan Linehan's avatar

I'm 81, and still in touch with numerous high school and college friends, as well as a bunch of other seniors. It is NOT normal to fall asleep in meetings. The occasional nap, yes, but not when engaged in something else. I hope Tapper long before 79 develops the brain placques that cause such need; it will with luck shut him up.

It is the very BASIS of prejudice to take one or a few exemplars of a group and turn their acts or characteristics into claims about the whole group. At the least it creates stereotypes that them selves have exceptions: "some of my best friends are...." In a real racist they become gospel truths about the whole group.

59 Somalis are fraudsters out of 800,000. One Afghan goes berserk and the govt can cite 6 more: all Afghans should be banned entry and quite possibly ejected--100,000 of them. One guy falls asleep in meetings at 79 and that becomes typical over everyone 79 and over. I won't even get into beliefs about women. The list goes on an on. This is a mode of thinking that, at least in racial and gender thinking, died down after the Civil Rights and 2nd Wave feminist movements. It is back full bore with the permission given by the Racist in Chief. Will it take another 200 years to pull it back from the American Way of Thought?

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