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<blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 8369946" data-attributes="member: 71699">This felt like an odd statement. On the one hand, I am not proposing creating stereotypes. And on the other hand, racism is about negatives, not positives, except where those positives are used to suggest negatives, which I am also not proposing. What is your example of something that is an unmitigated positive, and racist?I proposed that some dwarves - these dwarves - would have resilience, others might not. A stereotype is something ascribed to all dwarves. Just on account of their being a dwarf, they must have this trait. I can say that some people are tailors, without creating a stereotype that people are tailors.A stereotype must also be an oversimplification. One could ask whether having wings can be a stereotype? It is not a stereotype to say that humans have eyes because it is not an oversimplification. Humans have eyes and nothing is being oversimplified in saying so. To say that an aarakocra has wings is not stereotyping aarakocra.Which brings to light another possible filter. Remember I said that race features are ideally incommensurable. Perhaps one can add that they are also ideally not scalable. Not something that can be compared across races, on a scale.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="clearstream, post: 8369946, member: 71699"] This felt like an odd statement. On the one hand, I am not proposing creating stereotypes. And on the other hand, racism is about negatives, not positives, except where those positives are used to suggest negatives, which I am also not proposing. What is your example of something that is an unmitigated positive, and racist? I proposed that some dwarves - [I]these dwarves[/I] - would have resilience, others might not. A stereotype is something ascribed to [I]all dwarves[/I]. Just on account of their being a dwarf, they must have this trait. I can say that some people are tailors, without creating a stereotype that people are tailors. A stereotype must also be an oversimplification. One could ask whether having wings can be a stereotype? It is not a stereotype to say that humans have eyes because it is not an oversimplification. Humans have eyes and nothing is being oversimplified in saying so. To say that an aarakocra has wings is not stereotyping aarakocra. Which brings to light another possible filter. Remember I said that race features are ideally incommensurable. Perhaps one can add that they are also ideally not scalable. Not something that can be compared across races, on a scale. [/QUOTE]

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