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   ryan (ryan@bemrose.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Sep-2025 03:38:42 JST ryan

   Not sure who needs this reminder, but…

   Stereotyping (and its specialized variants such as nationalism, sexism, racism, etc) is a powerful human instinct, which happens to have been correct just often enough to be passed down through evolution.

   Do NOT mistake it for logic.

   • “I observe a member of group X to have Y trait or behavior”
   • “It seems like a lot of members of group X have Y trait”
   • “We can prove that a majority of group X members have Y trait”

   These statements have varying levels of confidence which may allow you to make a stastitical inference about an arbitrary member of group X, but NONE of them is sufficient to prove the commonly assumed syllogism:

   • α is a member of group X, therefore α has trait Y

   This simple fallacious formulation is very often used as the basis for “othering” huge populations of individuals, and, I believe, is the source of most of the injustice in the modern world.

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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Thursday, 11-Sep-2025 03:38:37 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     Put a gun to your head and pull the trigger. Just because it's a gun doesn't mean it's loaded. 🤷♂️
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     Peter (mcmlxviiotg@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 11-Sep-2025 03:58:33 JST Peter

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     Not all rabid pitbulls eat babies, let's just watch and see what this one does. Stereotypes exist for reasons, I'll start worrying about outliers when homicidal niggers stop killing folks.
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     ?? Humpleupagus ?? (humpleupagus@eveningzoo.club)'s status on Thursday, 11-Sep-2025 03:58:33 JST ?? Humpleupagus ??

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     > Stereotypes aren't based in logic
     
     > Has numerous posts stereotyping people and software developers.
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     picofarad (picofarad@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Sep-2025 04:25:43 JST picofarad

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     @ryan i understand why you're saying what you're saying, but most of the dialogue about this is the 11+ prior interactions with the judicial system, and why it seems there's a finger on the scale of justice.

     There's a lot of hate online, and most of it (i reckon) is misdirected. But i assuredly don't need someone like you to tell me

     some A are B
     therefore all A are B

     is a fallacy. come on, man.

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     ryan (ryan@bemrose.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Sep-2025 04:25:44 JST ryan

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     If an individual commits a crime, that person must be punished.
     
     If an accomplice enables a crime (eg: a bureaucrat or politician who releases criminals back into the population), the accomplice must also be punished.
     
     If a system incentivizes a crime, that system must be torn down and rebuilt.
     
     But you do NOT punish an entire race of people for the actions of a few.
     
     This message applies as equally to the anti-white racists in the political left as it does to the newly-minted anti-black racists who have formed in the backlash against them.
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     Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Sep-2025 04:25:45 JST Matt Hamilton

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     @ryan Lol, this is a reddit-esq long-form post of the "...but not all X people are Y" greentext which I unfortunately don't have on hand.

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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Thursday, 11-Sep-2025 04:26:24 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @ryan it serves as a defense mechanism, and you can use it for an estimate
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     Matty (matty@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Thursday, 11-Sep-2025 04:26:28 JST Matty

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     The window for talk is closing.
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     dictatordave (dictatordave@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 11-Sep-2025 04:26:28 JST dictatordave

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     • Matty
     @matty @ryan matty you dont understand
     this is one of the no agenda big brains, they can't be questioned
     i guess we're just wrong about statistics and self preservation and self defense
     
     please ryan, continue lecturing a global minority that's being genocided by a global majority with the help of every government and the cover of every corporation, please, tell us how terrible we are
     
     actually dont bother, get on the fucking wall with the niggers, fuck you faggot, bud dwyer yourself before the rwds get you you fucking traitor piece of shit
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     Matt Hamilton (eriner@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Sep-2025 04:26:58 JST Matt Hamilton

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     @ryan Found it.

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     My Name Is Unimportant, And My Accomplishments Are Few (iamthemostnormalhumantrustme@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 11-Sep-2025 05:42:44 JST My Name Is Unimportant, And My Accomplishments Are Few

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     Oops. 🤭
     
     🚨 🚔 ⏰ What's all that noise? It's the sound of ryan here running out of hirs self-diagnosed moralfag authoritaw. 🤡 🍼 ✡️
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