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The sentence I am asking about is the following

> [魚]｛さかな｝が[好]｛す｝きじゃない[人]｛ひと｝は、[肉]｛にく｝が[好]｛す｝きだ 」  
>  Person who does not like fish like meat
>
> Source: [Tae Kim's Guide to Learning
> Japanese](http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/adjectives)

My understanding, which is probably flawed in some aspect, is that は after
「[魚]｛さかな｝が[好]｛す｝きじゃない[人]｛ひと｝」 should make the sentence mean "People (in
general) who do not like fish like meat", since は would mean in general as
opposed to a particular occurrence (が).

How, then, would the general form be conveyed (i.e. "People (in general) who
do not like fish like meat")?
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Why does は refer to a particular rather than general in some cases?
You are correct and that website is incorrect on this matter.

Upon hearing/reading the sentence:

> 「​魚 {さかな} ​が​好 {す} ​きじゃない​人 {ひと} ​は、​肉 {にく} ​が​好 {す} ​きだ。 」

Practically all Japanese-speakers will take the 「人」 to mean " _ **people in
general**_ ". It is just _**extremely**_ unnatural to form that sentence when
the speaker/writer is referring to one particular person.

To alter the sentence so it talks about a particular individual, one could
say:

> 「魚が好きじゃない〇〇さんは、肉が好きだ。」 or more naturally,
>
> 「〇〇さんは、魚 **は** 好きじゃないけど、肉 **は** 好きだ。」←Uses a pair of the contrastive 「は's」.
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