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1. Is that source credible or inherently problematic? If the quality of the research in that video is similar to the...
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 09:48 PM
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...quality of the video's title, wouldn't the latter raise a few red flags as to the quality of the presented research? After all, since when is the blanket labeling of people not stereotyping them, and when is that ever acceptable in an honest, respectful discussion or discourse? Isn't it always appropriate to draw careful distinctions lest stereotypes become the common parlance? Historically, that sort of careless referencing has allowed hatred to thrive in many situations, and it probably should be clear by now that the practice is corrosive to the well-being of humanity as a whole. One could probably easily plot the effect of such casual language from as recently as the late 19th century in Germany to what is happening today between the State of Israel and the Palestinians.

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