What is it with old people and their complete inability to understand Anonymous? If you did that, you wouldn't be acting like "them", you would be part of Anonymous.
That's the entire point. Anyone attributing an action to "them" inherently wrong in doing so.
"Because Anonymous has no leadership, no action can be attributed to the membership as a whole. Parmy Olson and others have criticized media coverage that presents the group as well-organized or homogeneous." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_%28group%29)
No, not really. I said it for the same reason racists might use your example. To demean that group and to prime people who don't identify with that group to look down on the behavior.
the thing I don't get is it's literally in their name, that this is not a group but just some random people on the internet. The idea that it's one group just comes from how 4chan talks about anonymous people with slight lingo, making it sound like a group from an outsider.
If you want to be specific about what most of the internet refers to as 'Anonymous', it is /b/ on 4chan. /b/ and their very odd lingo is relatively well organized, but anonymous amongst eachother. Collectively, they are what the majority of people refer to as the 'hacker collective anonymous'. They also refer to themselves as btards look it up on urbandictionary or (NSFW) encyclopedia dramatica to learn more.
