“Intellectual Honesty is Dead” says OP while generalizing all POCs in the same breath
This is the post that drove this thought:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepThoughts/s/VsNSjpi1o4 . . . It’s incredible to me how many posts I’ve seen here with folks just straight up contradicting their own thoughts.
This OP posted about the death of Intellectual honesty and lack of philosophical arguments but then at the very end of the texts (edit 2) ends with something like:
“Any criticism on a person of color is seemingly deemed racist..
**Well here’s some intellectual honesty for you **:
You’re committing several philosophical fallacies here:
- Fallacy of Hasty Generalization (Secundum Quid)
You’re drawing a broad conclusion “any” from a small sample most likely seen in media. How many “people of color” have you interacted with or better yet, I would appreciate statistics on this. And based on what you said, it better be something like “according to this survey 100% of the sample population believe that any criticism is seen as racist.
- Fallacy of False Dilemma (Bifurcatio)
You’re reducing a complex issue to an either/or problem with no middle ground. By carelessly choosing to advocate that any criticism is seen as racist, you’re teaching folks that either you criticize a person of color and get labeled racist, or you say nothing at all.
By your own definition any POC reading your statement would conclude you are racist but no I just think you’re intellectually dishonest and a magnet of philosophical fallacies.
Posted Jun 1, 2025, 6:21 PM UTC