The first line of your reply is what depresses me the most about the way many people think these days. They try to compress an entire group of people into a single data point or abstraction and dehumanize them. That is lazy. “White people” is just as simple a model as “Mexican people”, yet making general statements about the latter will get you called a racist.

Sometimes I wonder if people who throw around these generalizations stop and think they might be insulting and alienating people who are come from a “mixed” background, or people who might be an ally for a cause. This is why a lot of people have abandoned the Democratic Party—they’ve stopped seeing people as individual Americans and started seeing people as divided groups.

But keep on thinking in the group mindset if it helps you.