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So, "I know you're one of the good ones, but you're going to have to accept that lots of black men are criminals. If you want people to think of black men in general as nice people, you need to fight the criminals. Right now you're not doing that." would be an acceptable thing to say to a black person?

Even if statistically the classic "50% 13% racist statistic" is true, it's still seen as wrong to be scared of black men with no other reason than their skin color, why then is it ok to be scared of black men with no other reason than their gender?

I posit that in both cases generalization is harmful, both to society at large and to those generalized, statistics or not.

Like don't get me wrong stay safe out there, but also don't get caught up making generalizations based on demographics, that historically has been a "bad" thing.

Not for nothing, "all men are rapists" is fairly new, it used to be "the hypersexual ne*ro rape beast" during the Jim Crow era.

https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/brute/homepage.htm

The "terrible crime" most often mentioned in connection with the black brute was rape, specifically the rape of a white woman. At the beginning of the twentieth century, much of the virulent, anti-black propaganda that found its way into scientific journals, local newspapers, and best-selling novels focused on the stereotype of the black rapist. The claim that black brutes were, in epidemic numbers, raping white women became the public rationalization for the lynching of black people.

Maybe it's time to drop the "All X does Y" thing after all? I know then it's harder to sell fear to swaths of people but like, good?