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minus-squareBoddhisatva@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up67arrow-down1·edit-215 hours ago Stop telling yourself it’s a few bad apples. The whole saying is “A few bad apples spoil the bunch.” Saying that some people in a group are just a few bad apples doesn’t imply that the larger group is sound. It suggests that the entire group is spoiled. Edit to add: For anyone who hasn’t seen it, here’s a list of 1,376 (and counting) Republican sexual predators, abusers, and enablers.
minus-squarepsychothumbs@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·9 hours agoIt does drive me crazy how people butcher that expression.
minus-squarebitjunkie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 hours agoRight up there with pulling oneself up by their bootstraps, which was coined to make fun of rich fucks thinking this was somehow possible.
minus-square🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·14 hours agoThat “it’s only a few bad apples” would be a reasonable answer if that system gets rid and punishes those bad apples. But if the system protects and ignores those bad apples, then the whole system is rotten
The whole saying is “A few bad apples spoil the bunch.” Saying that some people in a group are just a few bad apples doesn’t imply that the larger group is sound. It suggests that the entire group is spoiled.
Edit to add: For anyone who hasn’t seen it, here’s a list of 1,376 (and counting) Republican sexual predators, abusers, and enablers.
It does drive me crazy how people butcher that expression.
Right up there with pulling oneself up by their bootstraps, which was coined to make fun of rich fucks thinking this was somehow possible.
That “it’s only a few bad apples” would be a reasonable answer if that system gets rid and punishes those bad apples.
But if the system protects and ignores those bad apples, then the whole system is rotten