Comment by ahelwer
13 years ago
It's like any time Anita Sarkeesian is mentioned on reddit, and people take 7000 rageful comments to convince themselves a problem does not exist.
13 years ago
It's like any time Anita Sarkeesian is mentioned on reddit, and people take 7000 rageful comments to convince themselves a problem does not exist.
People (reddit and elsewhere, internet and elsewhere) have a crippling mental condition where if they haven't experienced a problem on a personal level, it must not exist. It's a glaring logical problem that should be as obvious as the word "NO" on a 500 foot tall, illuminated billboard.
Yet it keeps happening.
Another logical fallacy I've seen is kind of the contrapositive (if I remember ethics class correctly): If people hear an anecdote of a problem affecting someone in a group, the problem exists throughout the entire group.
E.g. the other day Reddit had a story about an atheist who dropped out of West Point because he felt there was too much religion, which somehow mutated on some of the subreddits to how all atheists in all of the military branches are continuously being oppressed (which is far and away untrue).
Even more astoundingly, even people who've run headlong into this attitude from others still don't realise when they're doing it themselves. For instance, a lot of feminists have trouble grasping that racism does actually exist, anti-racism activists can't understand why sexism is a big deal, etc...