One of the flip sides of the coin is that we have to cut others a proper amount of slack when they generalize to a reasonable degree. Thought/language 'is' abstraction. I had a nasty experience a couple of years ago. I was new to an online conversational circle which is very preoccupied with issues of race and representation. A context came along in which I made a couple of brief, general introductory remarks, tossing out a couple of my own opinions for illustration and triangulation. One or two were about my being Jewish; I feel good about the uses American Black culture has made reprocessing our stories. I got flamed for over-generalizing about one big homogenous black culture . . . which, from context, I hadn't done, and within two more exchanges I was barred from the group.
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I had a nasty experience a couple of years ago. I was new to an online conversational circle which is very preoccupied with issues of race and representation. A context came along in which I made a couple of brief, general introductory remarks, tossing out a couple of my own opinions for illustration and triangulation. One or two were about my being Jewish; I feel good about the uses American Black culture has made reprocessing our stories. I got flamed for over-generalizing about one big homogenous black culture . . . which, from context, I hadn't done, and within two more exchanges I was barred from the group.