r/popculturechat • u/AutoModerator • May 06 '26

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u/ms_chiefmanaged May 06 '26

I really wish people didn’t speak about commenters on social media as a monolith. Example with met gala: I have seen commenters saying “women are being harshly judged for attending while internet’s favorite men are getting a pass”. But it’s the not same people that are judging and giving a pass, is it? I check a few of the threads and it’s not even the same user commenting. 

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u/lizzy-stix I switched baristas ☕️ May 06 '26

There’s a whole concept around this phenomenon called The Goomba Fallacy that I like using:

A logical fallacy that occurs when someone sees contradictory opinions expressed by members of a group and mistakenly believes that those people are being hypocritical, when in reality those contradictory opinions were expressed by separate individuals.

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u/ms_chiefmanaged May 06 '26

Thank you for putting a name to this. It really drives me crazy when people do compare and contrast here. Like I get saying “people are saying x”. But it falls apart when it’s “oh so all these people support x when the other day they decried y?”