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		thisjepisje on Nov 13, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What an Uncensored Letter to M.L.K. Reveals It's like they want to be offended or something, don't you think? Isn't it pretty obvious that when someone says "Americans are silly people" they don't mean that literally every single American person is silly?

lavamantis on Nov 13, 2014 [–]

I'm not sure it's all that obvious. That's pretty much the entire foundation of the very popular practices of "stereotyping" and "racism".

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