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Re:Individuals prefer to harm their own group rather than he... by ilyt on Friday December 02, 2022 @09:40AM (#33830970)
Is there some "fellow white people" group I need to apply to ?

Or you you're a "member of a group" that you never even joined or cared to get close to ?

That's incredibly racist dude. It is exactly same thing actual racists do when they assume someone is <minority> therefore they will do <bad thing>.

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Re:Individuals prefer to harm their own group rather than he... by Spivak on Friday December 02, 2022 @09:48AM (#33831115)
If you say, “you’re a white man and therefore you must like Weezer” that’s the prejudice you’re describing. But if you say white men like Weezer you see how that’s an entirely different statement, right?

One is the behavior of an individual ant, one is describing the colony.

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Re:Individuals prefer to harm their own group rather than he... by thegrimmest on Friday December 02, 2022 @10:44AM (#33832013)
> white men like Weezer

This is exactly wrong though - do a majority of white men like Weezer? The right thing to say is "People who like Weezer are overwhelmingly white" (assuming it's true of course).

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Re:Individuals prefer to harm their own group rather than he... by theprincess on Friday December 02, 2022 @10:20AM (#33831632)
This phrasing:

> "fellow white people"

Is oddly specific.

Were you referencing this by chance? https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fellow-white-people-arent-you...

If so, I got the reference and I'm unimpressed by your trolling, dude.

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