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Re:Classism in America by SEJeff on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @11:45AM (#11439522)
Well I was pointing out his logical fallacy in assuming I supported someone because of where I was from. That is a ridiculous assumption, so I made an equally ridiculous one, which he immediately understood. Then we got on really well.
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Re:Classism in America by falsestprophet on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @12:21PM (#11439792)
It isn't equally ridiculous.

38.6% of Americans state that they would vote for Donald Trump over Hilary Clinton while 49% state that they would vote for Clinton over Trump.

There are only several hundred members of the IRA today (out of 1.8 million people in Northern Ireland) and even fewer of them participate in terrorism.

And it's not a logical fallacy. The cab driver clearly didn't mean all Americans support Donald Trump. Presumably he knows there are other candidates so thats at least a few people who don't support Trump. He meant a lot of Americans do support Trump and clearly they do.

[1] http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/ge...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Irish_Republican_Army

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Re:Classism in America by PhasmaFelis on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @03:26PM (#11441175)
> The cab driver clearly didn't mean all Americans support Donald Trump. Presumably he knows there are other candidates so thats at least a few people who don't support Trump. He meant a lot of Americans do support Trump and clearly they do.

Why are you willing to accept that the cab driver was speaking figuratively, but not that SEJeff was?

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Re:Classism in America by mikeash on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @10:47PM (#11444323)
> The cab driver clearly didn't mean all Americans support Donald Trump.

Then why was he surprised to meet an American who didn't? You're really reaching.

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