General statements are offensive.
By
Cobra Baghdad
on July 26, 2007
Pretty good comment by Alkanshel. And Alk (I don't know alk's precise gender) has a valid point, general statements are the ones most likely to be labelled sexist, racist, homophobic, jingoist, et cetera.
On the other hand, I feel like you can talk about gender groups and not be sexist because men and women are different. I feel like you can discuss differences in culture without being racist. I feel as though there's got to be a way to discuss these things, and that some people simply need to get over themselves.
I was talking to my aunt last night and she noted that "The recovery movement has done more to stifle real political change in the last half century than any other group or affiliation." I think she has a point.
Firstly, the recovery movement has created this idea that people aren't wholly responsible for their own behaviors.
Secondly, it led to the self-help movement with it's "I'm okay, you're okay" policy.
But this is a discussion that can't occur without accepting a certain amount of general statements.
Agreed
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Fair enough. I just thought it was a great claim, thank you Alkie.
Yeah, that it is. I support the basic premise of it, but the fact lies that not all general statements are offensive (naturally, the whole point of my comment being that general statements about general statements would have to be offensive).
That being said, I'm in agreement about the harm that can be caused by misuse of generality and the firm belief that small subsets of any given population are representative of the population at large.