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The core of this trope is that \\\"Oh, so if you describe someone as [insert term] then that means you\\\'ve \\\'\\\'noticed\\\'\\\' that they\\\'re [insert term], and hence you aren\\\'t seeing them as a person but as [insert term]\\\", which is, if I may say so, stupid.
All human beings are humans, but every individual is different and unique and if you don\\\'t celebrate those differences that make each individual who they are, then you\\\'re being just as idiotic as bigots who go around saying that someone is inferior due to a characteristic of theirs. In fact, by saying that you shouldn\\\'t describe someone in terms of characteristics about them at all, then you\\\'re actually implying that those characteristics \\\'\\\'make them inferior\\\'\\\' and are hence actually being discriminatory! You think this is political correctness gone mad? Well that\\\'s the essence of this trope. It\\\'s taking political correctness to a rather smug and blind-sighted extreme while ignoring the fact that every single person is different and that by being unable to celebrate that fact you are actually re-affirming the very categorisation that you are seeking to condemn.
Gender, racial heritage, sexual orientation or whatever are often placed as categories. In reality, humans are just a spectrum of differences that sort of meld into each other, but we do give names to those distinctive differences. I\\\'m against categorisation as it tends to reduce people to being nothing \\\'\\\'but\\\'\\\' that category, but the fact of the matter is that everyone is different. I know people that if you tried to deny the fact that they had a certain racial heritage[[hottip:*:I have issues with the word \\\'race\\\' at all, considering that all that \\\'race\\\' is is really just a spectrum of phenotype differences depending on the environmental situation of a particular group of people over hundreds of years of development, but I\\\'m not going to to into that]], with all the rich cultural and historical background that is inherent in their ancestral lineage, they would feel very affronted. And considering my \\\'\\\'own\\\'\\\' background, this includes people in my own \\\'\\\'family\\\'\\\' who do actually feel this way, so I have some idea of what I\\\'m talking about (and I\\\'m pretty sure I\\\'m not practicing internalised racism by mentioning this).
I know that this trope is supposed to be geared more towards instances where people saying \\\"Some of my best friends are X\\\" is their defence for a discriminatory practice where they actually think that X is inferior, but at its heart this trope is still deeply flawed and seriously needs to be revised.[[hottip:*:At the very least it needs to be reworded so I don\\\'t feel like throttling its creator!]]
Yeah, this is a long topic, but I\\\'ve thought about this for a while and it does actually bother me enough for me to want to bring it up in discussion.
All human beings are humans, but every individual is different and unique and if you don\\\'t celebrate those differences that make each individual who they are, then you\\\'re being just as idiotic as bigots who go around saying that someone is inferior due to a characteristic of theirs. In fact, by saying that you shouldn\\\'t describe someone in terms of characteristics about them at all, then you\\\'re actually implying that those characteristics \\\'\\\'make them inferior\\\'\\\' and are hence actually being discriminatory! You think this is political correctness gone mad? Well that\\\'s the essence of this trope. It\\\'s taking political correctness to a rather smug and blind-sighted extreme while ignoring the fact that every single person is different and that by being unable to celebrate that fact you are actually re-affirming the very categorisation that you are seeking to condemn.
Gender, racial heritage, sexual orientation or whatever are often placed as categories. In reality, humans are just a spectrum of differences that sort of meld into each other, but we do give names to those distinctive differences. I\\\'m against categorisation as it tends to reduce people to being nothing \\\'\\\'but\\\'\\\' that category, but the fact of the matter is that everyone is different. I know people that if you tried to deny the fact that they had a certain racial heritage[[hottip:*:I have issues with the word \\\'race\\\' at all, considering that all that \\\'race\\\' is is really just a spectrum of phenotype differences depending on the environmental situation of a particular group of people over hundreds of years of development, but I\\\'m not going to to into that]], with all the rich cultural and historical background that is inherent in their ancestral lineage, they would feel very affronted. And considering my \\\'\\\'own\\\'\\\' background, this includes people in my own \\\'\\\'family\\\'\\\' who do actually feel this way, so I have some idea of what I\\\'m talking about (and I\\\'m pretty sure I\\\'m not practicing internalised racism by mentioning this).
I know that this trope is supposed to be geared more towards instances where people saying \\\"Some of my best friends are X\\\" is their defence for a discriminatory practice where they actually think that X is inferior, but at its heart this trope is still deeply flawed and seriously needs to be revised.[[hottip:*:At the very least it needs to be reworded so I don\\\'t feel like throttling its creator!]]
Yeah, this is a long topic, but I\\\'ve thought about this for a while and it does actually bother me enough for me to want to bring it up in discussion.
