Hey hey hey hey, or: we could not use different animal species to symbolize different groups of people, especially when you're using stereotypical animal traits to match up with stereotypical human group traits.
Right?!
I hate arguments from nature so much--and applying animal stereotypes is a kind of argument from nature--because all people do anthropomorphize nature... and then apply that back onto people. Here is how this animal is like a person. Now let me talk about people in terms of this characteristic that I've read into an animal.
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Date: 2010-06-23 09:03 pm (UTC)Right?!
I hate arguments from nature so much--and applying animal stereotypes is a kind of argument from nature--because all people do anthropomorphize nature... and then apply that back onto people. Here is how this animal is like a person. Now let me talk about people in terms of this characteristic that I've read into an animal.