[High Praise! to According to Hoyt]
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What most “tolerance” people do is simply replace a stereotype with the other. Instead of the evil foreigner, they throw in something that looks like the twenty first century’s cousin of the noble savage. (I was going to say instead of the dumb stay at home mom, they have the stay at home mom who saves the world from a lair in her basement, but that’s just something I want to write. I don’t think that is a stereotype ANY politically correct person has ever doubted.) Instead of father-and-protector they see evil oppressing patriarch. Instead of-

The thing is that their stereotypes aren’t in any way more correct in the real world. (It’s called political correctness, not real correctness.) In fact, their intersection in the real world is smaller.

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if a well groomed, well dressed black man wanders onto a car dealership at the same time as a scraggly bearded Charles Manson look alike white person in cutoffs, no shirt and barefoot (Or even in a cheap suit) salesmen will swarm the black man. And they should. Yes, the black man might be there to sell them encyclopedias, and the white guy might really be an eccentric millionaire. But that’s not the way to bet.
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And this quote just because the mental image tickles me (Sarah is of Portuguese extraction, and can be mistaken for Mexican by those who don’t know better):

I was standing around in a Home Depot parking lot and Toni Weisskopf drove by in her pick up, leaned out the window and said, “I need three people to write novels.” I hopped on the back of the truck and have been stealing American jobs since.