Our brains are masterful at categorizing information and externalizing information for efficiency (i.e. wow your car smells like my babysitter’s car from when I was 4—that’s weird).

If you want actual scientific discourse on this, I implore you to look into social psychology, which presents this in a brilliant little pipeline.

Stereotypes emerge from a “kernel of truth”—which may be false, socially constructed, or only true in a narrow context. When generalized, they become prejudice (pre-judging), which leads to discrimination. When embedded in systems, this discrimination reinforces racism, sexism, and other structural inequalities.

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