Is calling people racist racist?
No.
One time I said that pewdiepie fans are racist.
You were demonstrating
prejudice , not racism. Sometimes, prejudging can be a decent heuristic. For example, if you said that KKK members were racist, you would almost certainly be right regarding every member of that group. However, KKK members are quite different than pewdiepie fans which makes your prejudice less justifiable.
I simply said 'pewdiepie fans are racist', not 'all pewdiepie fans are racist'. Let me know if that counts as making a hasty generalization.
Yes, I would argue it does if you don't have data to support the claim that "all" or "virtually all" are racist. Leaving out a qualifier implies "all" or at least "virtually all".
Additionally, he said that I had no evidence to support my claim, which made my entire argument invalid.
That would make your argument/claim unsupported, not necessarily invalid.
But I don’t understand why I need evidence.
You do understand why. You realize that anyone can claim anything and to know what is true or not, we need evidence for those claims.
The evidence is so obvious because the fans can be seen harassing Indians for no reason many times.
How many times? 3? 10? 50? How many fans does pewdiepie have? What percentage are displaying racism? What percentage of fans is this? It sounds like you have evidence that
some fans display racist behavior, assuming they are harassing this group for no reason and they are not harrasing them for another reason independent of their race.
Also, can’t he just get off his fatass and find some evidence himself?
Assuming he does have a fat ass, then he probably could, but it sounds as if you are the one making the claim. This means that you have the
burden of proof to provide evidence to support your claim; it is not up to others to provide evidence against your claim.
Also, I would like to know how much evidence you need to have a good argument.
The answer is the amount and quality of evidence that is sufficiently convincing to others.
If you have more evidence than your opponent, does that make you win?
No. This would be a form of the
argument from ignorance . If you both have crappy evidence, but one of you has less crappy evidence, nobody has "won" because nobody is the wiser with the truth being discovered.
Everything he said sounded completely illogical, but I just wanted to ask to make sure he is indeed a moron.
His claim that your claim was "racist" was completely off, but his other comments seem fairly accurate.
Is he a moron? I can neither confirm nor deny that claim.