One of the dumbest things a person can do is to generalize a whole population from a single case. Such a person is thinking, for example, that the attitudes of one woman are the attitudes of all women. Or saying blacks are like this or blacks are like that as though everyone in the population of all people called black would be alike. Yet, another example would be someone thinking Jews control the economy when most Jews are not wealthy. Of course, this kind of thinking is often used when one feels that someone is unfairly keeping them down. The stupidity becomes clear when one follows the money. One would find that most billionaires are men, white, and Protestant, and most of the haters of other people are men, whites, and Protestants. Thus, this thinking would conclude that men, whites, and Protestants should hate themselves. Of course, that would be logical based on the assumption that all population members are alike. Since they are not all alike, thinking they are is dumb, and action based on a dumb assumption means trouble for the actor.
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