I argue in this paper that this can be a serious mistake, unless the political usefulness of such identification is cle arly divorced from its metaphysical and psychological aspects.
True tolerance requires a kind of mental dualit y at the levels of language, thought, and behaviour.
It requires us to recognize that no inferences about individuals can be made from statistical truths about groups, unless a group is stricly homogeneous in that all its members possess a genuine stochas tic property or propensity.