This happens a lot. The thing is the “crowd” becomes a somewhat meaningless concept when you attempt to assign it opinions. There are two different subsets of t

This happens a lot. The thing is the “crowd” becomes a somewhat meaningless concept when you attempt to assign it opinions. There are two different subsets of the crowd and only one is complaining at any time. This can also come up in political contexts when some of your adversaries say something, but you don’t track which of them said it, and instead assign the opinion to [democrats, republicans, libertarians] as a whole. Next thing you know you think they’re all dirty hypocrites arguing in bad faith, and it takes an effort to see otherwise.