„you are [insert bad person here]”

„why would you think that?”

„he speaks chinese. you speak chinese. he happens to be an asshole. you speak Chinese just like him, so therefore you are probably an asshole like him.”

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    False equivalence, I’d say.

    If A is the set containing c and d, and B is the set containing d and e, then since they both contain d, A and B are equal.

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      I’m a white guy that’s essentially fluent in Spanish and live where a lot of people speak Spanish. Not once in 10 years have I heard someone talking shit and trust that I’d be an easy target.

      I really hate when people get shitty because they don’t understand what others in the vicinity are saying. People should get a life.

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      saw something similar with someone on lemmy actually, that since they spoke a foreign language, they were some other user creating an alt and therefore a bad person.

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    False syllogism (you speak Chinese, so you’re an asshole) or maybe premature generalization (some Chinese speakers are assholes, therefore all Chinese speakers are assholes).