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How come older people like to act like furries are this outlandish idea but the thought of being with a mermaid has been around a lot longer (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The analogy was straightforward. My whiteness apparently makes me the same as every other white person. You're trying to find something that isn't here, at all

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"I don't hate group ABC. I just hate group XYZ that happens to be almost solely composed of members of ABC."

Next you will be arguing why hating blues, jazz and rap with every fibre of your being isn't racist.

And to further show why your analogy doesn't work:

P(Person being white | Person being male) = P(Person being white).

Being white and being male is unrelated and separate (<=> statistically independent), unlike being a furry and being queer which is actually related as mentioned earlier.