Saturday Jan 29, 2022

Episode 4.33: Do collective nouns encourage discrimination and prejudice?

Whenever we use a collective noun like “the French“ we are lumping together tens of millions of people into a single group as if they have shared characteristics. This is prima facie discriminatory and we should stop doing it if we really care about racism because only when we individualise our references can they be justifiable.

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