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What benefits do you get from stereotyping a person? Nothing physically of course; but mentally you get a good laugh. What's more valuable than a laugh? Just think about it; you're a modern day hero. Your stereotype of a muslim man being a terrorist was correct. You automatically saved your peers, maybe even your whole city from destruction. Instead of little side comments whispered voice them! Scream it in their faces and make sure people around you hear it too. It's better safe than sorry, right? Don’t forget that young man passing by with baggy clothes and tattoos is a shoplifter because he looks like it. And he'll rob you or even follow you home. Because, sure he has nothing better to do and no family to go home to anyway.

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