• Mîm@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    Said no one ever in regards to me (I’m not the sexy kind of nerd)

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            23 hours ago

            You really need to think about the worst case when you use the word “all”

            Think about the most acne-ridden, morbidly obese, ungroomed, mentally ill, racist incel with the worst hygiene. But hey, he plays starcraft and learned some computer programming. Down to smash?

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                4 hours ago

                You said “all nerds are sexy” you’re contradicting yourself here. Maybe you meant “nerdiness is sexy” but that is not what you said.

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                  2 hours ago

                  Or perhaps you’re reading a parlance a little too literally. You’re right, that is what I meant in a literal sense, and it seems like we got there!

                  If someone says “redheads are hot,” do you also chime in with “come on now, surely you don’t think a redhead who doesn’t bathe and also is a racist Nazi is hot”?

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                    1 hour ago

                    if someone said “redheads are hot” i’d say “alright”

                    if someone said “all redheads are hot” i’d say “that’s bullshit and you know it”

                    one is a generalization the other is an absolute statement