SCOTUS
Well, it’s been a quite while since I had the time and inclination to write a post! Leave it to the precariously balanced Supreme Court Of The United States to rouse me from my laziness. This week, the high court rendered a couple of blockbuster decisions that have heads spinning and tongues wagging from sea to shining sea. Let’s give ‘em a quick once over, shall we?
The term Stereotype derives from the Greek words stereos (solid, stable) and typos (impression). When you consider that impression, in this context, means an “indistinct or imprecise notion or remembrance”, the oxymoronic nature of the term stereotype becomes clear: a notion that is solid yet imprecise. Why the etymology lesson? It’s pretext for something I recently stumbled across.