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[ID: Four panel comic with people represented by crudely drawn stick figures
Panel 1: A red person and a blue person are talking.
Red: “In my experience red people are more oppressed than blue people”
Blue: “No it’s actually blue people who are more oppressed than red people”
Red: “No, you’re wrong, it’s red people”
Blue: “No, it really is blue people”
Panel 2: A dark red person enters from the side, while the red person turns to face them.
Dark red: “Hey uh. I have some studies you might want to read.”
Red: “Nah.”
Blue: “Nope.”
Dark red: “I’m just saying it might be useful to both of you to ground this argument in actual data on the issue. Since there are actual answers.”
Panel 3: Continue as above
Blue: “Oh so you’re going to deny that blue people are more oppressed too, huh?”
Dark red: “No, I’m deferring to the actual data we have rather than generalizing based on my own lived experience! You two should also do that!”
Red: “If we read ‘the data’ it’s going to claim that green people are more oppressed than both of us.”
Dark red: “Because that’s a reasonable conclusion to draw from the data!”
Panel 4: Zoom in on dark red
From offscreen: “Well I know a trio of green people who own an apartment, so clearly they’re not doing that badly”
Dark red: “Do you know what 'anecdotal evidence’ is?”
From offscreen: “Now that you bring up green people I actually find all this talk about 'more oppressed’ really pointless. We’re all oppressed!”
Dark red: “I am begging you to develop theoretical foundations. Please.”
End ID.]
