Why berate him for doing just that, then? He’s expressing his prior: members of a reference class he belongs to are often singled out for mistreatment by members of a reference class that his interlocutor claims membership with. He does not appear to believe himself Ambassador of All The Gay Men, based on what he’s actually saying, nor to treat that class-membership as some kind of ontological primitive.
Why berate him for doing just that, then? He’s expressing his prior: members of a reference class he belongs to are often singled out for mistreatment by members of a reference class that his interlocutor claims membership with. He does not appear to believe himself Ambassador of All The Gay Men, based on what he’s actually saying, nor to treat that class-membership as some kind of ontological primitive.