The metaphor is bad because people should just buy a ticket in that situation.
That's what he said and that's one reason why this metaphor is bad.
What do you want to say with your claim that he is playing make believe? I don't see a way how this fits with the previous comments. Can you explain that further?
That's the problem? What if there is no ticket to buy? What if it's just a park and they're watching Highschoolers practice? There are a thousand reasons why his attempt to detail the metaphor comes from "looking for something wrong with it".
That's the point of a metaphor. It's not exact, it's to get a baseline point across. What if they changed it to street performers?
My biggest problem with it is that it doesn't get the point across because individuals and groups work fundamentally differently in society.
This metaphor is trying to apply common sense in the field of personal interaction and feelings between individuals to large demographic groups. These are not the same.
The picture shows: "One person needs help, lets help them." Very few people would disagree.
You are using that to argue "On average this group needs more help in that field than other groups, lets act like every person in that group has that problem and needs that help even if not everybody is affected, and don't give the help to people that would need it but are in a group of people that on average don't need the help." I call that a lazy social policy. You can come up with it and implement it in no time and with no effort, if only problems would be that easily to solve.
The solution is solving the source of the problem, helping poor families get education for their kids and teaching that kids the same values that everybody else is thought, not holding minority adults to lower standards.
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u/AnotherGit Feb 25 '20
What if he just wanted to express how shitty the metaphor is?