This is for any X where you can get credit for being one. Prestige professions (scientist, artist, entrepreneur) and ideologies (feminist) are examples.
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Of course, you can call people phony and still be a phony yourself. But if you don’t have a *concept* that people can use the same branding as you and be fake, overhyped, superficial, disingenuous, etc...then you’re not the real thing.
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Corollary: If there is someone who says who is fake and who is legit, then everyone is fake (as originally said by Bryan Caplan)
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No true Scotsman would believe there are no false Scotsmen.
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I'm trying to decide whether I'm nothing, or fake-nothing.
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There are examples where saying "not everyone who says X is true about themselves is telling the truth" is controversial, including among people who are central examples of X.
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Good point. I was thinking of different X's when I first read this, but your counterpoint made me think of sexuality/gender identity, where we have good reasons for the norm to take everyone's self-identification seriously.
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