I feel like I can usually guess someone’s politics by looking at them. Muscular men, for instance, tend to be more right-wing and skinny men tend to be more left-wing.<\/p>\n
A friend says: This is similar to the use of stereotypes in jury selection.<\/p>\n
You cannot always be certain but stereotypes are true for a reason; a large number of persons of that type (anything that can be ascertained through observing someone be it race, ethnicity, religion, body type) share that characteristic.<\/p>\n
I remember in the late 60’s and early 70’s it was easy to assume someone held a particular group of beliefs if they looked and dressed like a “hippie.” Then more and more non hippies started wearing their hair long and dressing more in that style and often they didn’t share those beliefs.<\/p>\n
Since 90 percent of blacks support the democrats, that is an easy call. You only have a 10% chance of being wrong and you can probably narrow that down by observing their personal appearance, carriage, grooming, way of dressing and way of speaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I feel like I can usually guess someone’s politics by looking at them. Muscular men, for instance, tend to be more right-wing and skinny men tend to be more left-wing. A friend says: This is similar to the use of … Continue reading