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Just to clarify. What percentage of wealthy people do you believe think this? Is 10% too high of an estimate for wealthy people that believe this? 50%? 75%? 90
by r3trohack3r 25d ago
Just to clarify. What percentage of wealthy people do you believe think this?
Is 10% too high of an estimate for wealthy people that believe this? 50%? 75%? 90%?
Where would you throw the dart of your estimate and how wide do you think your error bounds are?
- quietsegfault 25d agoThis is textbook sealioning! Wrapping an interrogation in a polite "just to clarify" and demanding point estimates and error bounds on a generalization is weaponized pedantry designed to derail the thread into an impossible burden of proof.
- andsoitis 25d agoIt is fair to question the framing "many wealthy think the poor are lazy" because what the audience actually hears is "the majority of the wealthy think the poor are lazy (and other people don't think that)" because otherwise the sentence wouldn't have singled out the wealthy. Is it really the majority? And if it is, is that belief limited to the wealthy or do the middle class also think that? What do the poor think?
- r3trohack3r 24d ago(1) just to clarify isn’t meant to be polite, I’m trying to get GP to clarify his belief (2) I don’t care about citations - I want GP to clarify his belief (3) GP is using something similar to a Motte and Bailey to make a generalized statement about a group of people. They can argue against all wealthy people and retreat to “I didn’t mean all” with any argument that lands, without sacrificing the castle. This is a commonly used tactic when making generalizations about racial and social groups.