Indeed, as a prominent member of the Jewish community – who said Hollywood should "shun" and "refuse to work with" the anti-Semitic Mel Gibson – he boasts a track record of opposing stereotyping.
To allay their subsequent guilt, these men valorized themselves by constructing the opposing stereotype of the black man as sexual predator, crazed with lust for white women, a stock character in American demonology that informs race relations to this day.
Well, here's some: "We are really opposed to stereotypes," said Amanda Clinton, a spokeswoman for the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma.
An unsettling mish-mash of opposing desires and stereotypes, somehow both sexually deviant and virginal?
But the AA has a genuinely good track record of wanting to support cycling and opposing the media stereotypes of cyclists and drivers being at constant war with each other.
MW12 However, based on the urge to move away from ethnic stereotypes, opposing strategies were also described.
Courtney Fleury stands up for slighted Albertans: "As an Albertan, I am shocked and alarmed to read about my fellow people spitting things into other's hoods as it opposes the stereotype of us Canadians being far too polite, which is what I prefer to think.
Those with opposing views are being stereotyped and demonized.
His club move from Everton to Manchester United last summer was panned by opposing managers and pundits who relied on the same old stereotypes.
As far as artforms go, it may make for a slightly-more-exciting-than-usual romance novel that ought to include a moralising chapter on the dangers of sexist stereotypes, as opposed to a thrilling tale of international espionage.
