Is prejudice a necessary evil?

[Mothra1988]

There's a difference between having real reasons to be suspcious in certain situations and having some retarded ideological motivation for your views. Stormfags are about as stupid as SJWs, because they only say the bullshit they do becuase of of some dumbass idelogical bullshit not because they actually think what they are saying is factual.

 

[Molag Bal]

Prejudice is basic pattern recognition 99.9% of the time. This whole idea that you should treat every positive outlier as if they were a positive outlier is presumptuous. Specifically, it presumes that you are omniscient and know everyone's life and motivations before you've encountered them. Realistically, you are not omniscient, you don't know what another person will do in the future. All you can do is make a call and gauge the likelihoods of what they will do based on previous similar scenarios with similar people.

 

[Haramburger]

Maybe it makes sense to drop biases as you're shedding mortality and nearing True Enlightenment as you finish min/maxing your IRL build, but right now it keeps me from getting robbed by niggers and tweakers. I can't afford to drop this Flaw from my character sheet, it gives me too many bonuses right now.

 

[Stan]

>complains about intellectual laziness
>complains about dismissing people preemptively
>does exactly that
lmao

Kermit, you're one of the dumbest, most bigoted people I've ever met. So when you say I'm doing it wrong, it's a compliment.

 

[Kermit Jizz]

Kermit, you're one of the dumbest, most bigoted people I've ever met. So when you say I'm doing it wrong, it's a compliment.

>admitting that you're mati over a random kiwi
>while mocking other's intelligence

Again, lmao. You clearly didn't read what I wrote in this thread or are just ignoring it in favor of sperging out. If you want to quit being a histrionic faggot, feel free to actually engage what I or anyone else has said. If you just want to slap fight, quit being a faggot and just dm or some shit.

 

[Eydallur]

tl;dw you can and should judge people based on their outward appearance

Prejudice is basic pattern recognition 99.9% of the time.

And intelligence is 100% pattern recognition.

 

[lesser sperg]

If a heroin junkie asks to borrow from you £300... would you give it to him?

No? Do you have preconcieved notions about heroin users that determine your behaviour? Unmutual and disharmonious.

 

[gang weeder]

Prejudice isn't necessarily evil at all. And even those who think that it is, are still prejudiced against people who are prejudiced, so it is indeed necessary and can't be avoided.

 

[polyester]

I disagree with profiling and stereotyping.

What's the alternative?
"Always consider the individual!" is a nice feel-good motto, but simply not feasible in many situations.
"Profiling" literally means considering statistical probabilities.

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Say you're a taxi driver, and on the side of the road you see (separate from each other) two potential passengers hailing you for a ride:

• A shy white lady in a dress.
• A black dude covered in tattoos, wearing his pants below his waste.

Which one are you gonna take?
The one more likely to give you a generous tip, or the one more likely to stab and rob you?

"Nooooo, it's unfair to consider statistical probabilities based on racial/ethnic/cultural markers!", you say.
It may be unfair, but it's rational. Self-preservation demands it.

"You should consider the individual!"
Fucking how? Are you gonna get out and have a 1-hour interview with each of the two potential passengers, to get to know them "as a person", before deciding? Hell no.

 

[Local Fed]

• A shy white lady in a dress.
• A black dude covered in tattoos, wearing his pants below his waste.

Which one are you gonna take?

Obviously the white lady, if for no other reason than that the black guy in this scenario appears to have shit himself.

 

[ABE LINN COHN]

When dealing with individuals, prejudice is bad. When dealing with groups, prejudice is good.

 

[Piss Clam]

As a White Devil I'm sure there is some African that is afraid that I will steal their Ju-Ju beads.

That's after they get done eating the pygmies.

 

[Positron]

To disable "prejudice" and to enforce "assimilation" and "diversity" is like turning off your immune system. Your community will go septic like San Francisco.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

No because humans recognize patterns, learn from experience and are very good at distilling and transmiting what they learned to others. Everyone will have some prejudice or other based on their own lived experiences. Prejudice is an evolutionary mechanism that might be politically incorrect but also might help you assess dangerous situations and help save your ass from danger.

 

[I (Don't) Have A Gun]

Thinking is hard and time consuming. The human brain evolved to address those two issues by creating mental models and instead of examining every situation individually will running through a set of mental models and see which one best fits and take action based on that. This approach does sacrifice accuracy for speed but if you combine it with the human inclination to err on the side of caution it's a pretty good overall strategy and has served humans extremely well.

 

[The Ugly One]

What's the alternative?
"Always consider the individual!" is a nice feel-good motto, but simply not feasible in many situations.
"Profiling" literally means considering statistical probabilities.

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Say you're a taxi driver, and on the side of the road you see (separate from each other) two potential passengers hailing you for a ride:

• A shy white lady in a dress.
• A black dude covered in tattoos, wearing his pants below his waste.

Which one are you gonna take?
The one more likely to give you a generous tip, or the one more likely to stab and rob you?

"Nooooo, it's unfair to consider statistical probabilities based on racial/ethnic/cultural markers!", you say.
It may be unfair, but it's rational. Self-preservation demands it.

"You should consider the individual!"
Fucking how? Are you gonna get out and have a 1-hour interview with each of the two potential passengers, to get to know them "as a person", before deciding? Hell no.

You're mostly correct, but worth keeping in mind is that human risk-aversion didn't evolve to take into account statistics. When the downside of being wrong about a risk is getting killed, but the upside is trivial, we will go to seemingly irrational lengths to avoid the risky thing. The fact is even goodthinking white liberals won't buy houses in black neighborhoods for the same reason nobody else does. The downside of a break-in is too high.

 

[Local Fed]

The fact is even goodthinking white liberals won't buy houses in black neighborhoods for the same reason nobody else does. The downside of a break-in is too high.

This is absolutely correct, but it's not even the entire story. Violence and theft, while the most obvious and tangible concerns, are also accompanied by the risk of social strife that most people who haven't been living in a cave are aware of.

How many instances of race based hoaxes do we need to see? How many grainy 13 second videos of a "racist" white person with no context of what happened prior to the "horrible anti-black incident" do we need to see? How many internet dog piles and even celebrities piling on people to ruin their lives do we need to see? If you're ever in a situation where you need to shoot someone in self-defence, ask yourself: will the media and activist organisations give a shit if you blast the knife wielding white meth head? Will they martyr him the way that they would the knife wielding black crackhead? If you've (the reader in general) answered "I don't know" to the last question in particular, you're lying and I don't accept any other explanation for why you answered that way.

While the average person of a minority group may not do this (exercise their ability to weaponize their protected status,) why take the risk of being on the receiving end of their ability to ruin you if you can avoid it? You can argue that there's less of this that goes on in better neighbourhoods, but you're still not safe from those tactics there; I'm sure we've all noticed by now how many of these BLM activists and online race grifters seem to be light skinned with something to prove because they grew up some place where they can't claim to have much street cred. To be very topical and use a non-racial example, I'm sure we've all noticed how many of these trannies who are ever so oppressed have the time and ability to sit on Twitter all day and wear out their F5 keys but never seem to actually have to work a job to keep the lights on.