> it's on you to back it up. I'm giving an experience report - if you do disagree with my point let me know and I can happily expand - but it feels like you di

> it's on you to back it up. I'm giving an experience report - if you do disagree with my point let me know and I can happily expand - but it feels like you disagree with me making a generalization rather than the particulars. > It's not 100%, unless you yourself hold this opinion. Everyone except you? I have a hard time believing that. I'm not sure you understand what a generalization is. > Such generalizations do no one any good That's a generalization and it's not a very accurate one. We rely upon generalizations all the time - it's a healthy and necessary behaviour. > other that reducing people to some caricature that weakens your own point Another unsubstantiated generalization. Reducing to a caricature helps focus the conversation on the caricature. > is what supports the tribalistic behavior that leads to polarization. How? It doesn't even make sense most of the time - for example I'm not defining or helping create an in-group vs out-group with my comments. Secondly, what makes polarization or even tribalistic behavior inherently bad/unhealthy? The vast majority of group behaviour is not easily quantified and is based on thousands of generalizations. It's not the problem you make it out to be.