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Originally posted by starang21
if someone off the block just saw that, then they would assume all white people were like that.
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I don't want to talk about "prejudism" here - there's a whole thread of that happiness elsewhere, dig it up if you're so inclined.
Anyway - the line quoted above borders on hypocritical . . . if you don't see why, look at it like this:
(your thesis)This incident shows how ignorant white people can be.
(quasi-syllogistic approach)
-If someone off the block just saw that, they would assume all white people were like that.
-It is ignorant to apply a single case to the whole of a population (fallacy of hasty generalization, unrepresentative sample)
Therefore,
-It would be ignorant for someone off the block to assume all white people are like that. (-or- THIS thinking would show how ignorant people off the block can be . . . I realize it's not a true syllogism, but do you see the induction here?) Anyway . . . enough quibbling.
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Actually, I agree with you that this is definitely an incident of white people being ignorant, and that said ignorance can lead to white people looking bad, in general, in the eyes of some if allowed to reflect upon an entire race - the key is not making this extension, in my opinion, but I could be wrong. I was making the point extensible to our society in general (ie "all Americans", which was most likely poor hyperbole on my part), and you're going to limit it just to the race propagating the ignorance. Fine, that's your right I suppose - but don't expect
ktsnake to implicitly buy your logic, especially when you partially infer that he looks bad b/c of this group of stupid-ass kids running around in costumes.
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By the way - no one claimed it to be "all good" - some claimed it to be protected speech. Huge difference.