My "needless tirade" was on the fact that he is proposing anecdotal experience as fact, something he has been "taught by high school."
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However, I never said anything about 100% of the black population, or even of the teenage female black population. I was talking about a general amount.
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If high school has taught me anything, it's how the majority of certain races act, at least in the teenage years.
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These two seem quite discordant. Either you're speaking
specifically about young black women in your school, or you're speaking
generally, about
a majority young black women. If we're talking specifically, I would agree with you in that my
anecdotal experience young black women are more often embroiled in loud verbal and physical confrontations than white women of the same age. I must admit, however, that my anecdotal experience is filled with holes; I see more white women than black, and thereby when a black woman is being verbally or physically confrontational, it 'sticks out' more in my mind. Likewise, I've never quantitatively measured the numbers of each race so I can't say truthfully that it even represents a correlation of the "majority" of a race.
If you'd left that "majority" statement out, it would've been fine.