Kriss Cross
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Generalizing in a Politically Correct World
Perhaps the most consistent argument one faces when discussing politically incorrect subjects is the knee-jerkingly reflexive, “You can’t generalize like that!” They usually follow this with an anecdote about someone’s friend’s cousin who lives next door to a lady in a neighbouring town - ten years ago. The purpose of telling this story is that it “obviously proves” the politically incorrect premise is wrong. It is the trick of personalizing an individual characteristic over a group characteristic - which shows the person giving the anecdote has already lost the plot and is not arguing in good faith.
By Kriss Cross2 years ago in Humans