As someone who has lived as quite an extreme minority (only 4 people out of 1500 at my high school looked even remotely like me), it's hard to imagine a world where these small slip ups don't happen at all. I wouldn't want to live in that world. I'm guilty as well, to some extent.
Our minds are literally categorical machines--in order to fight entropy we find stable states through classification of the world into categories. So literally any form of thought is a form of discrimination between many categories. Every word can be thought of as a category.
Our minds are literally categorical machines--in order to fight entropy we find stable states through classification of the world into categories. So literally any form of thought is a form of discrimination between many categories. Every word can be thought of as a category.