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> ... people being racist or homophobic without ever meeting people of the "other group". In my limited experience, this is the norm, not an exception.
by nothrabannosir 7y ago
> ... people being racist or homophobic without ever meeting people of the "other group".
In my limited experience, this is the norm, not an exception.
- moomin 7y agoWhat is even more entertaining is that when they do know people from the other group, they have a habit of treating them as shining exceptions to the rule, not questioning whether or not the rule is even valid.
- foozed 7y ago"no, that's different. [name] is my friend!"
- mieseratte 7y ago> they have a habit of treating them as shining exceptions to the rule, not questioning whether or not the rule is even valid. That doesn't stop with the -ism's, I routinely run into programmers learning about DRY and cargo-culting the hell out of it. People seize onto absolute rules and superficiality, failing to consider deeper conceptual dissimilarities that would negate the application of the rule.
- msla 7y ago"The Exception That Proves The Rule": Yes, you can interpret it so it makes sense. No, that sensible interpretation isn't the one that caught on. It has a nasty symbiotic relationship with the "But you're one of the good ones" phenomenon, which is what you're more directly referring to.