I have given reasoning in multiple comments, but I’ll do it again. This situation is so far removed from the situation being discussed that it is comical.
1. An L&D worker who comments that men in her clinic are frequently not supportive of their partners is reporting on something she sees with her eyes. A prison guard who assumes that all of the incarcerated Black people in his prison are guilty is making an assumption. This part of OP’s comment, the idea that a corrections officer only sees prisoners post-conviction, so he is somehow at once a) totally justified in thinking they’re all guilty but also b) perpetuating a harmful stereotype by being surprised that one is innocent, is so incoherent that it feels like OP wanted to just make a general case about a corrections officer who interacts with Black criminals and therefore is racist toward Black people, but they realized they can’t do that because the case being discussed is about an observation at work, not actually a matter of straight-forward sexism against men.
2. Fathers in an L&D ward are a relatively random sample of new fathers. Incarcerated Black men are not a random sample of Black people. It is more reasonable to draw an assumption from the former than the latter.
3. An L&D worker saying that she has observed men being unsupportive of their partners does nowhere the near the harm to men in general than is done to Black men by racist corrections officers, and men being ribbed on TikTok is nowhere near the same situation as the over-incarceration and prison abuse of Black men. It is offensive to discuss these like they’re the same.
Overall, you can’t respond to every case of a person saying something about a group with, “But what if a prison guard hated Black people? Isn’t that kind of exactly the same thing?”
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u/Shot-Requirement8512 Apr 24 '26
"unhinged comparison"
at no point did you say its wrong, or give any reasoning, it clearly struck a nerve.
its literally the exact same fucking line of logic