Discussion, not Provocation

[Edwardo Piet]

With that being said, I do really like that you guys (the mods) had already been talking about this for a while, even before Neo started doing it. I think you guys are being really fair and as far as I can see, there is no hypocrisy on ya'lls end at all.

Hallo... she's after something...

Take those laxatives! You know what she's after!

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I think generalising isn't really the problem, but rather unfair/untrue generalising. Particularly when done for the purpose of not initiating discussion.

Yup. I am pretty sure I could make a thread called "All dead people are braindead" in the humor section and not get called a bigot for speaking ill of the dead

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Yeah, I wonder where we ever got that idea?

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Oh.  Right.

Sure, but for every racist conservative you find, there's multiple non-racist ones. It's a false equivocation to say that conservatives are racists. What is more accurate is that some conservatives are racist, or perhaps that most racists are conservative.

Perhaps the problem is that "conservatives are racists" doesn't specify whether you mean some or all. "All conservatives are racists" is certainly bigoted.

After a frustrating argument with an unintelligent theist I can be sometimes found saying things like "Holy crap theists are so dumb" but I'd NEVER say "Holy crap all theists are so dumb".