[Chris2048]

> your opinion is meaningless

Given they claimed, at least, to have personal xp on the matter then why is it meaningless?

Care to back up these statements?:

> it feels like it cannot possibly be

> I feel like you’re probably just making up your anecdata or exaggerating the size of it

> your experiences are about as valuable as my grandparents’ experience with “the Blacks”

That last one is clearly a reference to racism, so what are you accusing? surely not that you don't care either way?

> it’s not “silencing conversation” to acknowledge

but dog whistles and insinuations intended to attract flags do.

> Why does that matter?

Maybe have a conversation and find out?

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> Given they claimed, at least, to have personal xp on the matter then why is it meaningless?

Because personal experience is highly unlikely to amount to enough evidence to make a claim that anyone should feel comfortable generalizing to a population of humans. Positive or negative.

> Maybe have a conversation and find out?

My dude, I literally said “let’s have [a discussion]” and posed the exact question you are quoting to invite a conversation.

[Chris2048]

> highly unlikely to amount to enough evidence to make a claim that anyone should feel comfortable generalizing to a population of humans

Then what is the solution? quoting a study after all?

You also didn't explain why you mention all the things you "feel" about the poster, given you have such high standards of evidence - e.g. that they are making stuff up - what is that based on if not xp?

> My dude, I literally said

Saying "sure, let's do this" after making it very clear that their opinion didn't matter, and you think they were making stuff up? I don't think it was inviting a discussion in good faith, whether you said it or not.