Quote:
Originally posted by F8ful_n_durance
I am surprised to hear you say "Well, on an individual level, it is sometimes paranoia and made up" When you say individual level do you mean 'generally' or you specifically. SOMETIMES yes but for the most part I don't think that is the case. Why do you feel that way?
|
Don't be surprised.
Anyone who really knows me knows that I don't give 100% credibility and validity to anything. I know you don't know me.
Individual-level is the opposite of society-level. A lot of this stuff is based on perception of prejudice as opposed to materialized outcomes of discrimination like educational and economic deprivation. At the individual-level, people do imagine things or make assumptions so we can't pretend that every claim will be valid. At the society-level, we have millions of people from which to generalize so we don't have to rely on more individual-level accounts. It's one thing to say that 10 people are imagining things or just have bad personalities (as Dionysus pointed out). But, chances are millions of people can't have such an active imagination or just bad personalities (as Dionysus pointed out) on a semi-regular basis.
Threaded Mode