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‘Townie’ dehumanizes Hillsdale residents

Hipsters like skinny jeans, obscure music, and fair trade coffee. Sorority girls only wear leggings and pearls. Athletes never open books. But the danger of a stereotype is not necessarily its tendency towards falseness. In reality, many stereotypes are fairly accurate. Rather, stereotypes are wrong because they dehumanize the people they describe. When we see...