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D. It's the only one that is going off of a stereotype. The stereotype is that the town hall always makes bad decisions.
The statement that uses a stereotype to persuade the reader is option D. The town council always makes bad decisions.
Stereotype refers to over-generalized beliefs that we use in an attempt to categorize people, objects, and events while assuming those beliefs are accurate generalizations of the whole group. In other words, stereotypes are generalized because one assumes that the stereotype is true for each individual person in the category. In this case the stereotype is that the town hall ALWAYS makes bad decisions.