From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23655876 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23655876 : > >"If you don't believe this you're in the minority now" ha

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23655876 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23655876 : > >"If you don't believe this you're in the minority now" has never in history been a good argument for anything > I hear you. I originally had "and you don't really like minorities do you?" but thought it was a bit below the belt. I guess without the cruel dig it's not as relevant though. > I'm not confident that evidence will change the mind of someone who continues to deny systemic racism though. But social proof is very powerful even if it isn't evidence. I don't mind if people believe the right thing for the wrong reasons. There are plenty of minorities I don't really like. Such as police officers. Or sociopaths. But that's not because they're minorities, and given a choice between a belief that's popular and false versus one that's unpopular and true, I'll pick true one hundred times out of one hundred, and only grudgingly comprehend the distinction. Anything that can make people believe the right thing for the wrong reasons is just as effective (and usually more so) at making them believe the wrong thing for the wrong reasons, and needs to opposed regardless of whether it happens to have invoked "even a stopped clock is right twice a day" at the moment.