Quotes About Stereotyping

The keynote of minority prejudice is this: They are loathed because they are feared.

Yet when we encounter similar neighborhoods in this country, we now delicately refer to them as the inner city, yet everyone knows what we mean. (When affluent whites gentrify the same geographic areas, we don't characterize those whites as inner city families.)

But the color of a Negro's skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target

She studied him for a few more seconds. "You look too pretty to be useful." I gasped in spite of myself. Adrian chuckled and shook her hand. "Truer words were never spoken," he said.

This novel is pegged as a lesbian novel, therefore classified in the ghettos of literature. Anytime any work or any person is qualified, it's always an insult.

There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean, there's always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason.

To Mahmoud, Harshaw looked like a museum exhibit of what he thought of as a "Yank"—vulgar, dressed too informally for the occasion, loud, probably ignorant and almost certainly provincial. A professional man, too, which made it worse, as in Dr. Mahmoud's experience most American professional men were under-educated and narrow, mere technicians.

Mel scoffed. "Eves, on the scale from wholesome to whoresome, you're practically Amish.

If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.

You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind.... Cain slew his brother. Cain might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin.

Se você quiser manter qualquer grupo humano isolado – mulheres, judeus, ciganos, gays, negros –, a melhor forma é convencer todos de que essas pessoas são fonte de contaminação.

It's so aggravating the way people assume that just because I like having sex with some people, it means I like having sex with all people.

Antisemitism is not the hatred of people who happen to be Jews. It is hatred of them because they are Jews.

The kindest slur Italians routinely faced was to be called garlic eaters, but the usual remarks were far uglier.

Several important conclusions can be drawn from these studies. First, we have made considerable progress in combating conscious forms of bias and stereotyping.

claims of reverse racism especially on topics of affirmative action allow majority group members (Whites) to turn the tables on their accusers by implying they are now the ones being discriminated against. Although this flies in the face of all economic, educational, and employment data (APA Presidential Task Force, 2012; J. M. Jones, 1997), the focus of the debate now becomes one of portraying White Americans as the victims.

Let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do — let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work.

I tried to talk about National Geographic one night, and Jason gave me a look like I was insulting him, so I moved on to a safer subject: which of the girls have implants.

There is a tendency to judge a race, a nation or any distinct group by its least worthy members. Though manifestly unfair, this tendency has some justification. For the character and destiny of a group are often determined by its inferior elements.

You wouldn't shut up about how brain-damaged that 'little Rusky diva-bitch' was and how he needed to just 'get over his sorry self and give our poor cop a blow job and live happily ever after'—you remember that?

Witnesses like me are invisible to police anyway. Just another fat brown woman with too many dogs. They didn't want my opinion.

anti-Jewish material is repeated, because no one questions it.

Two thoughts went through my head as I read this: First, that Perlentaucher would never have added a remark like this about any other country on Earth: not North Korea, nor Saudi Arabia, Germany, nor even Israel,

The label "from the American" has, of course, very little to do with being precise about accent, vocabulary, writing style, orthography, geography, or citizenship. It simply has to do with the ascription of a cultural inferiority.