Brother in Arms
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I was reading a thread today http://thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=181410 about if your a collector/gun nut ect. In other words a post about what stereotypical gun owner are you? I was reading a post by benezra and he describes himself and what type of person he is.
His post made me think about how people always judge and stereotype people. This seems like a natural system for people to categorized people, so they can better guess how they will react. Not the fairest method but it certainly has its merits. If you see some guy who looks like a "dirt bag" coming toward you , you don't know if he is asking to bum a ciggarette, or if he is going to rob you. So you have to use your Judgement.
How do you think people stereotype you?
I can't be sure what people think of me who don't know me but here are some of the things I have heard people say about me.
1. People see that I have long hair, and occasionally Civil war era sideburns or goatee. Many people asume I am a drug user or dealer. Some also assume I am a "hippie". I have also been acused of looking "Anti-gun" or looking "liberal" and when I lived in the west many people assumed I was a "liberal" because I was from the east.
2. I often wear work clothes that are patched, somewhat holy or stained.
Apparently people have thought I was homeless a guy actually handed me a dollar once, which confused me and I refused to take his money and got mad at me and told me to get a job! (that was in Maine though and people aren't really used to seeing homeless people)
3. Other people have known I own firearms and or that I am a Afficianado of firerarms, have said I was a "gun nut" a "militia guy".
I guess the glass is upon all of us. Myself I don't let it bother me. But I try to take this into account when I judge someone why I do it. there is nothing wrong with this and I hate how the government is trying to legislate peoples judgement, with laws against using offensive words and slurs. And societys overall drive for Politcal correctness, though not mandated by law in many locales it is socially frowned upon to say the "wrong thing". I don't care what people think of me because I know ultimatly it doesn't matter what they think. And I don't change myself to placate others.
Sorry I don't have a clear point on this just things I am thinking about.
Brother in Arms
His post made me think about how people always judge and stereotype people. This seems like a natural system for people to categorized people, so they can better guess how they will react. Not the fairest method but it certainly has its merits. If you see some guy who looks like a "dirt bag" coming toward you , you don't know if he is asking to bum a ciggarette, or if he is going to rob you. So you have to use your Judgement.
How do you think people stereotype you?
I can't be sure what people think of me who don't know me but here are some of the things I have heard people say about me.
1. People see that I have long hair, and occasionally Civil war era sideburns or goatee. Many people asume I am a drug user or dealer. Some also assume I am a "hippie". I have also been acused of looking "Anti-gun" or looking "liberal" and when I lived in the west many people assumed I was a "liberal" because I was from the east.
2. I often wear work clothes that are patched, somewhat holy or stained.
Apparently people have thought I was homeless a guy actually handed me a dollar once, which confused me and I refused to take his money and got mad at me and told me to get a job! (that was in Maine though and people aren't really used to seeing homeless people)
3. Other people have known I own firearms and or that I am a Afficianado of firerarms, have said I was a "gun nut" a "militia guy".
I guess the glass is upon all of us. Myself I don't let it bother me. But I try to take this into account when I judge someone why I do it. there is nothing wrong with this and I hate how the government is trying to legislate peoples judgement, with laws against using offensive words and slurs. And societys overall drive for Politcal correctness, though not mandated by law in many locales it is socially frowned upon to say the "wrong thing". I don't care what people think of me because I know ultimatly it doesn't matter what they think. And I don't change myself to placate others.
Sorry I don't have a clear point on this just things I am thinking about.
Brother in Arms
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