I should probably start keeping a list of all the various uses of that ”but X is much more homogenous than the US!” argument. It’s just a semantic stopsign, dif

I should probably start keeping a list of all the various uses of that ”but X is much more homogenous than the US!” argument. It’s just a semantic stopsign, difficult to argue against because hey, that really sounds like a cum hoc ergo propter hoc but I guess it’s sort of plausible so what do I know? The causation is, of course, always presented as an accepted fact, not as a hypothesis with even a shred of confounder-controlled evidence. It’s just really tiresome.