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[–]Q-Continuum-kin 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think I lost some friends recently because I showed them FBI crime statistics and they countered with some anecdotes about some huge number of some bs for transwomen. So I was like "how many?" And their response was "believe me it's a huge problem here." So I asked "OK show me the data." Then the response was ridiculous. Basically they angrily said "I just told you the data." Like ... it was such a dumb response that it really stunned me and it was especially bad because this person is a STEM student who I did respect as a logical person. I responded "OK... well... I don't accept your ANECDOTES as facts." I assumed that this would be understood since he is studying a hard science but he then left the voice chat and ghosted me which I figured out later.

[–]reluctant_commenter 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Wowwwww. That's REALLY telling. Yeah, unfortunately people can be really hypocritical about stuff like that, I don't assume anymore but it's always shocking to see a blatant example of fact rejection in person.