generalizationist
That person is a generalizationist.
generalizationist by toeypoeydoodoo May 3, 2011
Get the generalizationist mug.
Generation Generalization
When one generalizes an entire generation without knowing the fact that not all the people within a specific generation fit most negative stereotypes about them. This is especially used against the Millennials and Gen Z'ers.
Non-Millennial: All Millennials are so PC it hurts.
Millennial: Uh, I'm part of Generation Y and I don't even give two shits about political correctness.
Non-Millennial: Really?
Millennial: Yeah. Instead of going with generation generalization, how about we all just stop generalizing the hell out of different generations and actually work together to make this world a much better place for us to live in.
Millennial: Uh, I'm part of Generation Y and I don't even give two shits about political correctness.
Non-Millennial: Really?
Millennial: Yeah. Instead of going with generation generalization, how about we all just stop generalizing the hell out of different generations and actually work together to make this world a much better place for us to live in.
Generation Generalization by CelticEagle February 13, 2019
Related Words
Genderalisation • generalizationist • Generation Generalization • Hasty Generalization Fallacy Fallacy • Hasty Generalization Imputation • Hasty Generalization is the new 'It's just another one-off case' • Hasty Generalization is the new One-off case • Neighborhood generalization • Town generalization
Town generalization
When you are generalized for the town you live in and not for your actual circumstances. Usually very annoying for people who get generalized this way. A lower middle class person may be just able to afford a small apartment or house in a rather affluent area and then they get generalized as rich. Or a rich kid may live in a decent neighborhood of what is considered a bad area. These rich kids usually use this to make themselves seem hard or ghetto while the kids with the opposite problem are tired of the generalizations.
Wealthy kids who happen to live in okay areas of Mount Vernon, parts of the Bronx, Queens or Brooklyn are seen as hood but a kid who lives in a one bedroom apartment with his whole family who just happens to live in some wealthier town in Westchester of Long Island is considered soft. town generalization sucks
Town generalization by moconahhh August 26, 2013
Genderalisation
Men are happier because they are paid better than women, is a most innacurate form of genderalisation.
Genderalisation by ac coolio April 27, 2017
Genderalisation
Any statement that exploits gender stereotypes, such as "Single mothers have difficulty finding childcare that suits their work hours." As if all single-parents are female and only female single parents have trouble finding suitable childcare arrangements. They can also be statements that insinuate all members of a gender are responsible for crimes committed by only a small percentage of people from that gender. Genderalisations usually help to maintain a gender stereotype that females benefit from.
Genderalisation by j1moris January 31, 2022
Neighborhood generalization
When someone generalizes your life based on a neighborhood you lived in at one point or another and doesn't take the time to think about that not everyone in a neighborhood does not make the same income, act the same or live in the same type of housing that most in that neighborhood might live in. Neighborhood generalization
Kid 1: where you from?
Kid 2: I'm from Brooklyn but I moved to Westchester when I was 7.
Kid 1: oh Westchester, your so rich.i stayed in the borroughs till I was out of high school.
Kid 2: no actually we had one of the smallest houses in the area and I could not afford half of what the other kids had. My parents did it for the better schools. Btw your house in the city cost more than mine. And you drove a Ferrari. Neighborhood generalization
Kid 2: I'm from Brooklyn but I moved to Westchester when I was 7.
Kid 1: oh Westchester, your so rich.i stayed in the borroughs till I was out of high school.
Kid 2: no actually we had one of the smallest houses in the area and I could not afford half of what the other kids had. My parents did it for the better schools. Btw your house in the city cost more than mine. And you drove a Ferrari. Neighborhood generalization
Neighborhood generalization by moconahhh June 9, 2013
Hasty Generalization is the new 'It's just another one-off case'
A meta-critique pointing out that the logical fallacy label "Hasty Generalization" is now being deployed with the same cynical, dismissive purpose as the classic Brazilian "isolated case" slogan. It's no longer a sincere call for statistical rigor, but a reflexively invoked shutdown phrase used to discard any emerging pattern that makes authority uncomfortable. The accuser weaponizes a term from Critical Thinking 101 to avoid thinking critically about accumulating evidence.
Hasty Generalization is the new 'It's just another one-off case' Example: A journalist threads together ten instances of a senator trading stocks after confidential briefings. The senator's defender replies, "You're connecting a few random trades over years. Hasty Generalization is the new 'It's just another one-off case.'" Here, the fallacy name is used not to debate the data, but to mimic intellectual superiority while performing the same old dismissal.