I did not imply that the rurals are a marginalised group and i don't think they are. Still I believe that generalisations against them (or anyone) and not recognising their individuality is the wrong approach.
On democracy and governance, I agree that policies can be harmful. But government cannot make an immoral people moral. Government cannot create wealth. If we want real change we must change the way people think and not the political system. We should be champions of our vision for a better world and not champions for political change. We should live the change we want to see instead of waiting for the government to forbid the opposite.
And I think right now there can be a lot of hope. Technology has made ordinary workers jobless over the past decades. But now it is slowly starting to also make the capital holders redundant.
But if the generalization corresponds to facts, then the assertion that we ought not generalize amounts to the assertion that we ought not speak the truth. It is a fact that people in rural areas are generally less well educated and consequently far more likely to be racist, homophobic, xenophobic, and advocate bad politics. The most libertarian way that you can change this is to reform education, so that kids in rural areas get a better understanding of science, sociology, anthropology, and history. We already have public schools, so we ought to make them better.
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stating facts is always good. Saying that the rural population is on average less well educated is fine with me. Maybe I just misunderstood your comments about the rural's.
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Categorization/generalization could be helpful in helping us make decisions, especially on issues that currently cause harm towards other people. Obviously, not all rural people are racist, but racism does tend to be worse in rural areas. There's a theory that a large part of it is the lack of racial diversity and engagement between races in rural areas. People are not as exposed to people of other colors as much in those areas, that they never learned to care for people of other races.
Some interesting difference between people perception on races in rural vs urban areas:
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/08/28/the-black-white-and-urban-rural-divides-in-perceptions-of-racial-fairness/
ps: Race is really just some social construct anyway, but it's unfortunate that there are existing racial demographics that are treated unequally depending on the areas. Once people someday stop thinking in term of skin color and races, then we could stop worrying about it.
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