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Originally Posted by Ustwo
So when you read a story about 'girl wears something inappropriate and gets led out in cuffs' there should be a only around a 15% chance or less of that girl being black, yet there were so many of us were thinking it.
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My first thought when I saw the headline a couple of days ago on cnn.com was that the girl was white. I suspicioned that the girl wanted to display herself in a Paris Hiltonish manner. It was after seeing the video that I made a generalization that she threw a shit fit. And like you, I'm not feeling guilty or apologizing for it. And I still suspect that the shit fit was the cause of the cuffs being brought out.
Maybe these opinions we form when we see things like this are the closest things we have to instinct. I think we base our feelings on the matter on past experiences, but to a degree it is easier or safer than assuming that everyone is like us. Sometimes we are wrong or our opinions or feelings are not on par with another's. Political correctness and the belief that we should be one big, warm and fuzzy group of people hypersensitive to other's above ourselves make some want to forget we are still emotional creatures.