And I suppose you also think that in this comment I’m trivialising the struggles of pit bulls by comparing them to apples.
Bad logic is bad logic, whether applied to dogs, humans, apples or whatever. The fact that you can instinctively understand the argument is wrong when applied to people is the exact reason I used that, so people would understand it’s a bad argument that proves nothing.
Bad logic is bad logic, whether applied to dogs, humans, apples or whatever.
Racism is racism, whether it’s direct and obvious or just casually equating ethnic minorities to the most feared “dangerous” dogs whilst claiming that you’re “just explaining logical errors”.
No, you don’t get to pretend you didn’t make an awful and offensive analogy (based on your irrational belief that the pitbulls are falsely maligned).
If the logic is as flawed as you claim, there must be hundreds of analogies you can draw that aren’t racist and don’t equate black people in the USA with pitbulls.
There might be, but I’ve only ever heard “X is a minority yet causes the majority of fatalities” used for two Xs, it’s bad logic in both cases, it would be bad logic in any other case too, feel free to find me another example of that logic that people instinctively understand it’s wrong and I’ll use that next time.
At no point in my reply did I mention race, I said the argument of “X is a minority, yet causes the majority of fatalities, therefore X is dangerous” is a bad argument. That is the whole of my point.
Two possibilities exist: Either you think it’s a good argument argument, or you don’t.
Which is it? Do you think the argument “X is a minority yet causes the majority of fatalities, therefore X is dangerous” is a good argument?
I think you’re a closet racist who won’t give up comparing black people to violent dogs even when asked not to, and that you like to hide behind generalities.
Three possibilities exist:
that you accidentally made a racist argument comparing black UK citizens to violent dogs, and you didn’t realise, in which case on hearing that it might be offensive to compare black US citizens to violent dogs, you would obviously have realised, apologised and backtracked by now. These are the actions of someone who didn’t mean to offend.
that you deliberately made a racist argument and you aren’t prepared to back down even when it’s pointed out to you. This is exactly how you’re behaving. For days now.
I thought it was option 1 at first. It isn’t.
The way you’re behaving reveals to me that it was your intent all along to make this false equivalence because you thought it was a cool own-the-libs arguing position. If that really isn’t you, I beg of you, take a step back and reconsider how you’re communicating.
And I suppose you also think that in this comment I’m trivialising the struggles of pit bulls by comparing them to apples.
Bad logic is bad logic, whether applied to dogs, humans, apples or whatever. The fact that you can instinctively understand the argument is wrong when applied to people is the exact reason I used that, so people would understand it’s a bad argument that proves nothing.
Racism is racism, whether it’s direct and obvious or just casually equating ethnic minorities to the most feared “dangerous” dogs whilst claiming that you’re “just explaining logical errors”.
No, you don’t get to pretend you didn’t make an awful and offensive analogy (based on your irrational belief that the pitbulls are falsely maligned).
If the logic is as flawed as you claim, there must be hundreds of analogies you can draw that aren’t racist and don’t equate black people in the USA with pitbulls.
There might be, but I’ve only ever heard “X is a minority yet causes the majority of fatalities” used for two Xs, it’s bad logic in both cases, it would be bad logic in any other case too, feel free to find me another example of that logic that people instinctively understand it’s wrong and I’ll use that next time.
Just fucking stop the racism.
It’s not my job to write your reality denying nonsense for you.
If your one and only recourse is to call black people violent dogs, you’re the one whose logical thinking is broken.
STOP with the racist crap.
At no point in my reply did I mention race, I said the argument of “X is a minority, yet causes the majority of fatalities, therefore X is dangerous” is a bad argument. That is the whole of my point.
Two possibilities exist: Either you think it’s a good argument argument, or you don’t.
Which is it? Do you think the argument “X is a minority yet causes the majority of fatalities, therefore X is dangerous” is a good argument?
I think you’re a closet racist who won’t give up comparing black people to violent dogs even when asked not to, and that you like to hide behind generalities.
Three possibilities exist:
I thought it was option 1 at first. It isn’t.
The way you’re behaving reveals to me that it was your intent all along to make this false equivalence because you thought it was a cool own-the-libs arguing position. If that really isn’t you, I beg of you, take a step back and reconsider how you’re communicating.