Quotes About Stereotyping

What kind of damage is done to our ability to love or understand and thus fully judge one another when daily we're encouraged to forget that people are people and view them instead as so much pasteboard, scenery, clutter, generalized instances (of murder, of rape, of embezzlement, etc.)?

Those who look at others as simple, one-dimensional caricatures fuel the rage of the dispossessed.

For years we were called niggers to indicate we had no value or worth and that anything could be done to us," Ray said. "Then the word 'nigger' became politically incorrect. So they began calling us criminals. When you say a person is a criminal it means that what happens to them does not matter. It means he or she is a nigger. It means they deserve what they get.

Most car advertising assumes that people have IQs that are missing a digit.

I wasn't put on the Earth only to be an investor. That wasn't my only thing in life. The problem is that as you get good at something and you keep getting better at something, more and more people just know you as that, and they have you in that box.

What I've run into more than anything is people who have a belief that they know who you are. Type-casting happens because people actually write you off. 'You are in this box. That's all you are; that's everything you are.' It's a very de-humanizing experience.

You know they ain't bad people. They're just uneducated, unsophisticated, untraveled, immoral, and uncivilized. Plus stupid. -The Missing

That anybody white could take your whole self for anything that came to mind. Not just work, kill, or maim you, but dirty you. Dirty you so bad you couldn't like yourself anymore. Dirty you so bad you forgot who you were and couldn't think it up.

They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume are good people." Many Americans expressed outrage at these views, but in fact Trump was just repeating a message that had long been normalized on both sides of the political aisle.25

I'm carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get 'Okaaaaaay, honey.' I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant.

Beauty was just another way to discount her, to not see her.

of 'base-born old folk or ignorant and simple people, vulgar rustics', or of women

Ronald Reagan breezily shared anecdotes about how Lyndon Johnson's Great Society handed over hard-earned taxpayer dollars to a "slum dweller" to live in posh government-subsidized housing and provided food stamps for one "strapping young buck" to buy steak, while another used the change he received from purchasing an orange to pay for a bottle of vodka. He ridiculed Medicaid recipients as "a faceless mass, waiting for handouts." The

The fixed mindset, plus stereotyping, plus women's trust in other people's assessments of them: All of these contribute to the gender gap in math and science.

All of us recognize variation within our own gender, party, ethnicity, or nation, but we are inclined to generalize about people in other categories and lump them all together as them. This habit starts awfully early.

Houve até um projeto dizendo que se o mulato tivesse o cabelo liso era considerado branco, se o cabelo fosse crespo então o mulato era considerado negro.

Donald Trump announced his presidential bid in June 2015, he made some comments that resulted in a political firestorm. Among the least incendiary of those comments was this statement: "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. . . . They're sending people that have lots of problems."13

In my mind I think Africa is one of the few places that can be infantilized and denigrated freely without consequences or due regard to local peoples' sensitivities.

It is that white privilege that has implications for my Black body. You see, to be Black in America is to be always already known. And white people assume that they know everything about me.

An antisemite is a person who hates Jews more than is absolutely necessary.

He wished he'd greeted her with something other than a reminder that they'd had sex the night before for the first time, though only because he assumed she was a prostitute that he'd bought and paid for, for the sole reason that he'd needed a woman that looked like her or he couldn't get it up.

People get it twisted. They see the baseball stuff, and they don't see you as a human being. They see you as someone that just plays baseball.

Please, please, please - I would love to do some comedy. Once you have a reputation for one thing - in my case, crying and dying - you are typecast.

I was always typecast as a Latina.