It seems hard for people to overcome this. It’s basically built in: reducing, minimizing, and/or generalizing others into stereotypes. Great for conserving memory for all those other incredibly system-intensive tasks the average person is putting their mind through, not so great for open communication between individuals. And yeah, I’m being snarky because most people probably aren’t doing much more than scrolling a media stream, but those darn <insert favorite group to bash here>s, they just need to <insert projection of own inadequacies here.> shakes closed fist in the air