Stereotypes Cannot and Should Not be Eradicated

Opening. Firstly, in regards to referring to you as ‘he’, I apologise, it was a lack of respect and effort on my part and I did not mean to offend you. Although, in hindsight, this reminds me of a stereotype in and of its self; however, I did not mean anything by it, it was a typical generic singular pronoun kafuffle. On a later inspection of your account however, there is no way for me to view your gender; in saying that, I should be increasingly robust by the way I acknowledge and respond to people in general. ‘I would like to point out the faults of this statement. Firstly, it would be gets are so oppressive. Second, Con then goes on to say people talk down to their friend, this is discrimination as this is an action.’ ~I apologise for my appalling grammar. ‘My source placement is not of concern as I actually include sources and Con's arguments are fatally under sourced. I know very little of the denominations of Christianity Con mentioned in the last round so I would like to see a source to tell me more about this.’ ~I do also apologise for my lack of sources, however at this point I have needed none as the conversation we have had this far has been basic knowledge and does not need to be sited, the rest has been on using your sources or correcting your information. Although, for the better of the debate, I will use more sourcing when it comes to arguments. My only concern with your placement of sources was I did not know where each source went, I was only guessing. I would like to thank Pro for this debate so far, it was interesting and understandable for both sides in my opinion, although I do believe I have a better understanding of this topic. I will respond to some statements made and make my final statement and conclusion. Rebuttals. ‘Those actions are not stereotypes, they are discrimination. You can ban, eradicate and control actions and you can punish people for them, but stereotypes ARE NOT actions.’ ~Stereotypes are actions, whether subtle or indirect, it has influenced your behaviour thus causing an action. ‘We shouldn't be eradicated thoughts or punishing people for them as we should all have the freedom to think what we want. When you act upon those thoughts, that is DISCRIMINATION, NOT STEREOTYPES. Discrimination is wrong and should be eradicated. But the thoughts we have are, in essence, harmless.’ ~I am arguing that a stereotype is an action and is only withheld due to social stigma. ‘Stereotypes possibly should be eradicated to an extent, as far as the negative ones go, but you just cannot eradicate a thought or belief.’ ~Well this is the essence of my argument, I probably wouldn’t have even debated if you had of been this specific, I don’t really understand if you are correcting yourself now, or you are changing your argument, either way, this should have been snuffed out in the rules and round one. Your rules for rounds are stated in round one, it clearly says at round 4 to have rebuttals and no further arguments. ‘Cultures ARE NOT the same as stereotypes. America has come from having slavery and segregation to not having that. That culture changed. But for some, the mindset of blacks being worthless or less than whites, has still carried on.’ ~Cultures create stereotypes. Stereotypes are created from education, this means that a culture is an expression of a stereotype. Conclusion. So far, this debate was mainly opinionated, unfortunately the real debate only went on for 3 rounds, it was a little sloppy on both sides to get started and a little confusing on what we both actually stood for. Pro appeared to be completely for stereotypes, I argued against due to a strong conviction that stereotypes are not useful. The first statement made by Pro was quite vague, It was more of an opinion than an argument and as a result, I returned with a similar outlook, the main argument was ‘Many people want to seem void of stereotypes and judgements so they will go against a gut feeling of danger to trust a person they do not know. Those people will seem like saints to themselves and possibly others until they are betrayed and/or hurt. Stereotypes breed certain fear and caution in people that can help protect them from danger. Without these assumptions, we would fail to place our trust in the right places. The only way stereotyping is harmful is if the stereotyped group is taunted or discriminated against, which is by all means wrong but not the point of this debate. Just to clarify.’ However, what pro forgets to realise is that you can’t have a strong opinion and conviction about someone and not act on it, Pro then used an example of the youtube video which I accurately displayed to be incorrectly used on her* side in round 3. I mentioned that in the video, the police acted on a stereotype and in the heat of the moment, used force according to the stereotype, ending in an un-needed death. Later in that video, the author also described stereotypes to be sustained due to responses of the stereotype. For example, the stereotype of oppressive authority figures in high crime rates of America will only enforce the stereotypes of the criminal figures continuing to apply to crime. Essentially, it’s a belief system. Refer to the youtube video for the source. Later on in this debate, there was also miscommunication of the title; as the title says ‘Stereotypes Cannot and Should Not be Eradicated’, This could be taken in two ways, the first way is ‘Stereotypes can’t be eradicated and should not be eradicated’, the second way is implying the word ‘can’t’ to be an adjective and impress the expression of the word ‘should’ to be louder. I assumed it was meaning #1 I gave and showed a clear example of how stereotypes can be removed. I also mentioned why they should be, showing a bad stereotype. By this time, we have witnessed a clear forfeit in the original argument topic made by Pro; and this should be enough to suggest Con winning. By round 3, Con misinterprets my argument by simply not seeing the complete extent of her original statement. She* also goes on to say ‘Never did I state that "cultures can't be changed," therefore I am not accepting the statements following a proper rebuttal as they are refuting a statement never shared.’ However, clearly this is stated in the title… Shortly after saying this, she then said in her final statement ‘Again, underlying stereotypes cannot and should not be eradicated from our society.’ Unfortunately, so far, nothing I have said needed to be sourced as everything falls under common knowledge or simply a correction of the information already given by Pro, in fact, the only source I actually needed was the youtube video clip that Pro used; At this point I have shown beyond reasonable doubt that I have won this debate by pro essentially agreeing with my points. I do want to thank you for this opportunity to converse with you and would like to possibly debate this issue again with clearer states in which confusion can be kept to a minimum, as in the end, was the reason you lost this debate. ~Kryptic.