# What posters have the opposite personalities in real life?

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**Created:** [June 1, 2005, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-posters-have-the-opposite-personalities-in-real-life/306400 "2005-06-01T16:37:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2005, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-posters-have-the-opposite-personalities-in-real-life/306400/61 "2005-06-13T06:14:09Z")

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> [@Large Marge](#):
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> This comment suggests that you don’t treat them like anyone else; it suggests that you’ve singled “them” out as a group to be treated a specific way. If you didn’t think of them as different from others, you wouldn’t comment on how you “treat them like anyone else.”

But this type of thinking can be applied to anything, really. Someone says “I have some friends who are Republicans” could be analysed as having singled them out to be given specific treatment. Someone saying 'Blacks ought to receive affirmative action" ditto.

The point I was trying to make, anyway, was not about my treatment of them (trivial in the great scheme of things) but about the way they sometimes like to have it both ways. Lotsa people talking about them (their success, their style, etc), but only so long as it’s positive.

We’d all like that!

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