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the bigot's personal life "proving" that all people of type X are innately flawed (dumb, arrogant,
whiny, cruel, weak, unfaithful, boring, anal retentive, boneheaded, clingy, mentally ill, useless, etc).
If a person of type X shows up and says, "Heeeey, I'm not like that," it won't make a dent in the
bigot's convictions. They'll simply shrug it off with, "You must be an exception," or "You must be
mistyped." And so they plug their ears to examples that don't fit their preconceived paradigms. To
the bigot, the action of one bad person stands for every member of that type, just as the bad deed of
one Mexican "proves" that all Mexicans are bad. The type bigot won't care in the slightest that they
have labeled person X as inferior, hurt their feelings, and made them question their worth in the
world. And yet these same people will self righteously decry the ill treatment of ethnic and
religious minorities because it makes the poor folks feel inferior, hurts their feelings, and makes
them question their worth in the world. "I'm just telling it like it is," states the type bigot proudly.
Don't be deceived—a type bigot and a real bigot produce exactly the same hurtful effects using
exactly the same tactics: demeaning insults, exclusion of those unlike themselves, and blind refusal
to see any good in the despised parties.
Bigots also don't believe in poor type development. They believe that all people of a certain type,
whether healthy, unhealthy, good or bad—are all the same. They will trot out the standard two or
three examples from their personal life ("My heart was broken by type X three times") and vent
their wrath and contempt upon those who share the offenders' type. And so the hated type in
question becomes a synonym for everyone that they dislike in real life. True, the reasons for
disliking the individuals in question may be entirely valid, but then the bigot makes a blanket
declaration like, "People of type X are cheaters." It won't matter to them that the offenders were
evil/poorly developed examples, because this would actually imply that the bigot has bad judgment
or picks losers. Rather than admitting that they are a poor judge of character, the bigot says, "No!
They weren't poorly developed! I was right in trusting them with my heart—but then they betrayed
me! They're a type X and that's just how they all are. I'll never trust a type X again." It's much
easier and more pleasant to blame other people rather than recognizing that internal issues are
causing external problems. It's true that evil is expressed uniquely in every type. But we call those
individuals "evil type X" or "poorly developed type X," not just "type X."
Another thing that type bigots do is to stroke their own egos by sneeringly comparing their type's
strengths with the opposite type's weaknesses. There is no harm in comparing our natural gifts and
shortcomings with those of others; we can learn from such things and better support each other's
weak spots. But it is wrong to make these comparisons in an unkind or arrogant spirit. The type
bigot privately believes that the more others are demeaned, the brighter they themselves will shine.
Thus they seek to debase those whose talents and strengths do not match their own by painting the
others' inabilities in blackest colors. Never mind that such comparisons leave the wounded party
feeling excluded, unwanted and inferior. All that matters is that the type bigot gets to feel
wonderful about their own special talents and gifts.
On the internet, the people who bear the brunt of type prejudice tend to be Sensors and Extraverts,
because the internet type community is composed mainly of Introverted Intuitives. In the real
world, the people who bear the brunt of (mainly oblivious) type bigotry are Intuitives and
Introverts, because the real world is composed mainly of Extraverted Sensors.
Since this book was written to an IN audience, let's focus on the problem of internet-based type
bigotry. Many Introverted Intuitives hanging out in online communities are particularly susceptible
to becoming bitter against Extraverted Sensing types. This is because INs suffer most from the
unconscious prejudice of real world Extraverted Sensors, and they may feel they are justified in
striking back, like a child who gets to hurt the big bad bully at last. What this amounts to is
basically reverse racism, and while it is understandable, it is never acceptable. Seemingly kind