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In reply to the discussion: no more, no less. a pediatrician looks at ALL parents as POTENTIAL abusers. [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)When you take acts by a small percentage of a group of people and say "You are all potential doers of that act because of your gender, race, ethnicity, religion, etc." it is offensive.
Take the comment up thread as an example "All women are potential false rape claim reporters"
Now it's not so funny, right?
As I noted to Seabeyond, I am the person who posted this in the feminists forum http://www.democraticunderground.com/11399518 . I know the percentages of false rape reports are extremely low compared to the incidents of rape. But if we are going to say that even if percentages doing an act by a cohort group are small, we can accuse them of being "Potential doers of said act" that applies.
This is the very essence of prejudice. It is something that any person at any part of the left spectrum should automatically reject.