violence problem? ya think?

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Flint

As long as people are content with catagorizing themselves into these impossibly monolithic groups, and de-humanizing those who are "against" them, we will keep getting bamboozled by the us-versus-them politics of boogeyman-ism.

Are you content with the categorizing happening in this thread? Do you placidly accept the de-humanizing of others? Does this oversimplification of people and events reduce the world to shapes and sizes you can more easily comprehend? Does this represent the limit of your understanding?

It's not a game. Stereotypes and prejudices are not useful tools for understanding the truth. The map is not the terrain.