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CyricZ posted...

FaultyGourry posted...

that purported to be for the gaming community insults, lies to and lies about said community

The fallacy here is assuming that the articles were directed against the entire community and not the toxic elements of it.

Not a single article said "You. Yes, you. Are the problem with gaming." Toxic people just took it personal because the toxic qualities resonated with them, and boy did they not like being called out.

That's just confirmation bias. If you call a group of people assholes, and they respond with the resounding fuck you, you don't then get to then claim that's evidence that all of those people are in fact assholes. What you're basically arguing, is that when they said that gamers are shit people, that anyone who disagreed must have been a shit person, because any good and moral and upstanding person would have just immediately agreed and stopped calling themself a gamer. it leaves no room for disagreement. It completely closes the door on the possibility that maybe some of those articles were wrong.
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