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Stereotypes are among the most reproducible phenomena in all of social science. On a population level, they are true.
The only way to combat stereotypes is to adopt a laser focus on the individual. It doesn't matter what stereotypes surround your various identity groups if you are strictly evaluated based on your individual merit.
The left have adopted a laser focus on identity groups while simultaneously denying the reality of stereotypes. The result is our current insanity. Black people view their "blackness" as the most essential aspect of their identities, and then we all have to pretend that black culture isn't completely toxic and destructive.
Not only are stereotypes reproducible, but the role they play in inter-personal interactions is fairly well understood:
- Stereotype Accuracy: One of the Largest and Most Replicable Effects in All of Social Psychology, a chapter from the Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination
So we already do "adopt a laser focus on the individual".
Not from a policy perspective.
Of course you would want to adopt a laser focus on the individual from a policy perspective.
Otherwise you create a purely collectivist and tyrannical society where individual actions are irrelevant. Doesn't matter if you rob a bank or not, you are Amish, and are therefore not known for robbing banks.
Similarly, if you didn't rob a bank, or weren't even on the scene, but you're a former bank robber, you must be guilty of robbing the bank.
You're appealing to the literal "prosecutor's fallacy".
That depends entirely on the stereotype and it's application. There are stereotypes that are wholly fictitious based entirely on myth.