[ExI] words

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 6:56 PM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:

Spike - I am going to run this by you because I don't want to get into
> trouble.  Is this flaming?  I am a bit more than upset by such a primitive
> example of lack of social intelligence by Rafa.
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> A term was used in a derogatory sense by one of our members in a recent
> post, 'leftoids',
>
> I think that this is just the worst sort of overgeneralization -
> stereotyping.  I think that this is not worthy of the intelligence of the
> members of this group as I have observed.
>

### Would you mind explaining how using the term "leftoid" is stereotyping?
Also, what's wrong with stereotyping? Is it a stereotype if it's true?

Rafał
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