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Never, under any circumstances, use the phrase "you people" unless you're in the mood for everyone in the universe to act like you just lost the argument.
Solid advice. It can be completely benign, but people will still pounce on it for an "easy win".
You people make some good points.
Excuuuuuuse me!
You people are excused. /s
Rein those U's in when you're talkin to me. I ain't no princess.
I mean you're not wrong in that people will often try to play the victim in that scenario, but there are plenty of intelligent people who can easily see such claims are merely a flimsy argumentative tactic. After all, we are discussing it right now, and its pretty easy to recognize when it happens.
Definitely still solid advice though, especially IRL. Online I feel like it's a bit more acceptable, because you don't even know the physical characteristics of the person you're arguing with, so it's much more difficult to twist you people into some kind of discriminatory or bigoted statement, given that the two debaters are anonymous.
Then what do you people want me to say?
yall is good; especially when trying to be respectful on non-gendered phrasing
I can come up with a couple of nonspecific alternatives, all of them would cause an even worse mayhem.
I hate that this is correct. Because that phrase only ever had a bad connotation for reasons that probably apply in next to none of the cases on Lemmy where someone would take that phrase as a failed purity test.
Probably any time I used that online I meant "most of the people replying in this particular thread". To me, it's super obvious what it means but I've gotten the kind of smug response you mean several times.
The usage here is appropriate but you are absolutely correct. It is the perfect way to start losing an argument.
When reading all the Tankie bullshit it's actually very easy to get emotional so that's why I limit my interactions with them. I only come out when they are not offered a counter point outside of their 3 instances.