this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2023
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It seems hard for people to overcome this. It's basically built in: reducing, minimizing, and/or generalizing others into stereotypes. Great for conserving memory for all those other incredibly system-intensive tasks the average person is putting their mind through, not so great for open communication between individuals. And yeah, I'm being snarky because most people probably aren't doing much more than scrolling a media stream, but those darn s, they just need to shakes closed fist in the air