Re:GitHub, fuck your name change
by amanaplanacanal on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @07:20AM
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I don’t think so. It’s not that no true Scotsmen are idiots, it’s just that the idiots are not representative. Maybe 10% of Scotsmen are idiots. The other 90% are fine.
The idiots are just very loud on social media.
Re:GitHub, fuck your name change
by newswasboring on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @08:58AM
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This is a soft form of the same argument. Whatever may be the proportion of those people, the community still has to own up to it if this portion exists.
the community still has to own up to it
Why? For what purpose are you burdening 90% of True Scotsmen with an obligation of your choosing?
Re:GitHub, fuck your name change
by newswasboring on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @03:21PM
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Because it's a part of their community and each community needs to take care of its own problems.
When it comes to political ideology invoking a no true Scotsman is not always invalid.
As an example, as a leftist I can say: “A socialist revolution without social justice is not socialist”. Yes, this is a no true Scotsman fallacy, but here I am merely disavowing a subgroup of people that might share my economic believes that workers ought to take over the means of production, but fail to see that the racial injustice in our economic system is part of the problem. In my view, if you don’t see that, you are not a real leftist.
> It does have all the looks of virtue signalling without any real justification.
If you combine both the statements, you are committing a no true Scotsman fallacy.