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You mean it could be a “fallacy of composition” - if you provided some evidence for the claim that a group of likely non-racist individuals are nevertheless rac
by ghufran_syed 5y ago
You mean it could be a “fallacy of composition” - if you provided some evidence for the claim that a group of likely non-racist individuals are nevertheless racist as a group - whatever that means.
- aaron-santos 5y agoIf the argument is that low individual racism implies low systemic racism of the group then I very clearly mean yes it is a fallacy of composition. I want to disentangle the idea that a fallacious requires implies a judgement of the truth value of the argument. It doesn't. It just means that avenue of reasoning is flawed. There may be other ways of proving that the NYPD is not as a group racist, but by arguing by way of individuals is not one of them.