I see a parallel between those who want Muslims to take collective blame for terrorism in their ranks and feminists who want men to take collective blame for sexism/harassment in their ranks. In both cases, there's a tendency to generalise: "There must be a problem with your sort that causes the bad behavior. Thus, everyone of your sort must have said problem. Therefore, I'm going to blame you personally for the actions of complete strangers."
@icefox The funny thing about it is that feminism itself came into being because women were unhappy with the expectations and restrictions placed on them just because they happened to lack a penis. A feminist ought to be the first person to understand that saying anything about "men" as a group is as inaccurate and inconsiderate as saying anything about "women" as a group. Yet, this blunder is casually made in opinion pieces by self-professed feminists every day...
@icefox It's not a blunder made by every feminist, but boy do I see it made often.
@icefox You'd think it would be enough to point this mistake out once, and then we could all quit making it. I have learned to add a "some" to statements I make about groups of people, in cases where it's not evident that I didn't mean "every". (Whew! That was quite a mouthful of double negatives.)
@thor You'd think!
But no, this is basically the typical human pattern for any us-vs-them tribal group type thinking, no matter what they are, when in history it is, or so on.
Humans are pretty dumb.
@thor
Basically anyone who uses generalizations about group identity and stereotypes individuals on that basis.
@thor You can expand this tendency to basically any group that condemns another group based on membership in that group.
Welcome to humanity!