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This is argument from anecdote. "everyone feels that they are being victimized constantly" is a pretty bold claim. You offer no concrete evidence to support t
by caseydurfee 11y ago
This is argument from anecdote.
"everyone feels that they are being victimized constantly" is a pretty bold claim. You offer no concrete evidence to support this. Instead you link to Jerry Seinfeld also claiming, without providing evidence, that colleges are too politically correct.
Is there too much sensitivity? I'm not saying there isn't. But you've offered nothing to support that claim other than a lazy "you know those PC college kids, amirite?" Well, no, I don't. I've heard some things I think are pretty silly, but how prevalent are they actually? Frankly, if this thread is anything to go on, anti-PC people spend plenty of time whining about how they're constantly victimized by political correctness, and I wonder how much of it is just projection.
You've taken this one incident (which, in the context of the "No Black Girls" parties and other details Fridersdorf deliberately left out, isn't even convincing on its own) and blown it out into "everyone feels that they are being victimized constantly." It's lazy and does nobody any good. Try going a week without using the words "always" or "never" unless you're referring to an actual tautology.
- mhuffman 11y ago> This is argument from anecdote So? Just because you can play logical fallacy bingo with someone's point of view, does not mean that they can't express it. That was my opinion, not a formal debate argument entry in a PC convincing contest.