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Originally Posted by Anke Wehner
I don't know, some people just try to redefine reality rather than change their assummptions. People start with the idea of "Genre X is stupid. This book is not stupid, so it can't be genre X, because it is inconceivable that my assumption is wrong." (I see that in other fields, too. "All women are stupid about maths/tech. If a woman is good in those fields, she is not a counter-example. She must have some hormone imbalance that gave her a male brain.")
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It's called the "
no true Scotsman" fallacy, related to the "
moving the goalposts" fallacy