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Hm, I've never encountered this specific thought before, though I've noticed what I think is part of the process, in which progressives have taught children to never trust one's own snap judgment of others, as that would be stereotyping, and everyone deserves to be seen as individuals. Thus kids didn't have a chance to learn and develop intuitions about others based on snap judgments. And yet we still need to make snap judgments sometimes, and I suppose it's possible that that energy got channeled from the more conservative stereotypes to the progressive-approved stereotypes.
At least, this is my pet theory as someone who used to be a child taught by progressives 20+ years ago, when I and everyone around me really seemed to believe that a society where we rise above stereotypes was possible and desirable. The progressives who taught me seemed to genuinely believe in creating this world of judging individuals by the content of their individual character, and I don't believe they were motivated by idpol, but perhaps the rise of idpol to mainstream progressivism in the last 2 decades (idpol of the modern CRT variety has been around for a very long time, of course, but it's the recent mainstreaming that's notable) is a consequence of the kids lacking access to something like stereotyping to make snap judgments. Heck, even attractiveness and fatness aren't allowed as judgment tools these days (nor were they 20 years ago when I was in school).
Then there's the continued atomization of society making people have even less practice in talking to strangers or loosely-known acquaintances, thus giving them even less confidence in their ability to make accurate snap judgments. We might have run into a sort of perfect storm scenario the last couple decades.
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