This is some kind of high-octane meta-DARVO.https://twitter.com/secupp/status/1096983828592316416 …
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the "beauty" of argument by anecdote-and-metonymy is that it can't be wrong, because it's not-even-wrong not sure what to do about it except just keep yelling that (x ∈ X was harmed by a y ∈ Y) says nothing ∀x.y even when true; and that feels inadequate against mass hypnosis
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it feels like the kind of rhetorical trick that must work mainly on people who were drilled in "representative sampling is very important and authoritative" but not adequately taught that "plausible as metonymy" and "statistically representative" aren't the same thing
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This is a pre-existing fault mode. People don't have to be taught how to make these mistakes.https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/1087223610656342016 …
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.