You people

The principle here is that if a commenter addresses the forum as "you people", and especially if he does it in his first comment on the site, things are likely to go downhill fast. Some variant forms:


 * All you people/folks/guys—


 * Your type -- 


 * You and your ilk -- 


 * What you people don't understand is that your position is completely flawed. 


 * Looks like you people are overly invested in {topic}. 


 * You people will stop at nothing to attack {my issue}.


 * This is just the sort of thing I've come to expect from you people. 


 * Your type likes to throw around these pejorative labels for anybody who doesn't agree with you 


 * I see the whiners are out in force 


 * So much for {members of a political tendency the speaker opposes} being open-minded. 


 * This place is just an echo chamber. 
 * I find it interesting that many of the people on this thread {accusation of hypocrisy}.

The principle also holds true if a commenter addresses some identifiable segment of his fellow commenters that way -- for instance, in a conversation where there's some gender polarization going on, starting a comment ''"What the hell is wrong with you women?!" '' (See also: Sample Conversations)