Redirect Your Desire For Accuracy

‘Perhaps I like accuracy instead of sweeping generalisations?’

A comment on one of my recent LinkedIn posts, when asked why they felt the need to ‘correct’ me.

The post in question, was about the different ways white people in the UK are showing up right now, with respect to the race riots taking place. The original post can be seen here, and screenshots are shown below. I have no ill will towards the commenter and am using this exchange as an opportunity for learning. The commenter began by asking why the media ‘insists on calling this violent behaviour protests’. As with any question on my posts, if I have an answer that doesn’t require a lot of labour, I will share it. When I provided an answer, they replied that ‘it was not entirely true’ but they ‘got my point’. When I asked them to explain how it was ‘not entirely true’, and asked why they felt the need to correct me, they ignored my first question and went on to describe my answer as a ‘sweeping generalisation’ and said they ‘liked accuracy’.