tarring with the same brush
Blanket negative judgment
Tarring with the same brush means treating different people or things as equally guilty or flawed based on a shared category, ignoring individual differences.
The image is of slapping tar indiscriminately across a group.
The scandal tarred all politicians with the same brush.
Usually implies unfairness—judging by association rather than merit.
- in-group biasFavoritism toward one's own
- blanket statementAssertion applied universally
- generalizationDeriving principles from examples
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
- pigeonholingAssigning to narrow categories
discrimination · profiling · bias · stereotyping · snap judgment · false equivalence · scapegoating · labeling · one bad apple · stigma · bigotry · confirmation bias · hasty generalization · marginalization · throwing shade · intolerance · bandwagon effect · same old story