• ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    So many

    Don’t extrapolate your social circle onto the entire population. If someone else’s social circle contains no one like this, are they then justified in saying it’s overblown and extremely rare? Somehow I doubt you’d think so.

    This is no different from someone rationalizing/justifying a mistrust of black people based on the face that they were mugged once, and the mugger was black.

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      17 days ago

      That was a bit of hyperbole… I didn’t mean a majority of men. Like a few particular jerks in a class, basically.

      But they were so prolific that their ‘body count’ was pretty high. Hence I think it’s fair to extrapolate a sample as a justification of this meme, as even ‘a few’ bad eggs can have enough of a disproportionate effect to justify the stereotype.

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        16 days ago

        But they were so prolific that their ‘body count’ was pretty high.

        …are we still talking about incels, here? Because ‘incel with a high ‘body count’’ is kind of like saying ‘triangle with four sides’, lol.

        EDIT: Hm, maybe I mixed up what comment chain I was in, oh well.

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          16 days ago

          Between the comic and even this thread, you’re the first person to mention incels. This isn’t a gotcha and even if it was, it’d be a pointless observation.

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      16 days ago

      So many

      onto the entire population

      They weren’t, if you understand English. They didn’t even say most. Just: there are an amount that can, from some vague perspective, be considered a lot.

      You chose to misconstrue what they said because that fits the agenda you’re pushing all over this thread. You’re guy #3, aren’t you? You certainly seem offended enough to be.