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by sebstefan 253 days ago
>he's just using the exact same plain old discriminatory thinking people used to employ when comparing, among many things, race and nationalities. It's incredibly hard to generalize anything about people honestly.

The reason we shun it for race and nationalities is because you can't pick those, you're born with it.

All generalizations are not the same ; your job, your hobbies, your programming language of choice: these assumptions might yield to incorrect results in the exact same way for the exact same reasons, but they are not on the same moral ballpark