Re:Kevinism
by artfucker1996 on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @04:21AM
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same. being named kevin is a hard life in germany, but sometimes i can't help but wonder if it actually benefited me in some way. it tought me a great lesson about people being spiteful without realising it, just because it's been established by the social environment that you live in. while some people are just consciously being dickheads, others might have this negative stigma associated with the name Kevin without ever meeting a person named Kevin. to me this is fascinating and in my opionion extends in some ways to people being racist or homophobic without ever meeting people of the "other group".
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Re:Kevinism
by nothrabannosir on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @05:22AM
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> ... people being racist or homophobic without ever meeting people of the "other group".
In my limited experience, this is the norm, not an exception.
What is even more entertaining is that when they do know people from the other group, they have a habit of treating them as shining exceptions to the rule, not questioning whether or not the rule is even valid.
Re:Kevinism
by mieseratte on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @10:27AM
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> they have a habit of treating them as shining exceptions to the rule, not questioning whether or not the rule is even valid.
That doesn't stop with the -ism's, I routinely run into programmers learning about DRY and cargo-culting the hell out of it. People seize onto absolute rules and superficiality, failing to consider deeper conceptual dissimilarities that would negate the application of the rule.
"no, that's different. [name] is my friend!"
"The Exception That Proves The Rule":
Yes, you can interpret it so it makes sense.
No, that sensible interpretation isn't the one that caught on.
It has a nasty symbiotic relationship with the "But you're one of the good ones" phenomenon, which is what you're more directly referring to.