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Katashi_itto

(10,175 posts)
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 03:24 PM Feb 2016

Question Which Logical fallacy is this?

"Seriously? The article says of 1000 people asked if they would hurt a living creature liberals answer no not for up to a million dollars. I guess they didn't poll any liberals in Chicago. ..highest rate of senseless gun violence in the country. They kill for shoes or even less. Now WE can choose to make generalizations which continue the separation between people or big in to STOP PUTTING PEOPLE INTO CATEGORIES."

I was thinking stawman

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Question Which Logical fallacy is this? (Original Post) Katashi_itto Feb 2016 OP
It's hard to determine which logical fallacies may apply LuvLoogie Feb 2016 #1
The guy is all over the place, screaming that I am bigoted towards RWers. Katashi_itto Feb 2016 #2
Just tell him that opposition to right-wing bigotry LuvLoogie Feb 2016 #3
Red Herring. HughBeaumont Feb 2016 #4
The Sarah Palin Talk fallacy? Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2016 #5
Not a straw man fallacy. Lizzie Poppet Feb 2016 #6
Thanks! Katashi_itto Feb 2016 #7
Not even worthy of a proper response.... Blue_Tires Feb 2016 #8
Closer to 'no true Scotsman' lumberjack_jeff Feb 2016 #9
is "obvious inhalant abuse" a fallacy? MisterP Feb 2016 #10

LuvLoogie

(6,936 posts)
1. It's hard to determine which logical fallacies may apply
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 03:34 PM
Feb 2016

when the grammar, especially the sentence structure, in the quote is so atrocious.

It's hard to glean any of the original context. Language is important when discerning logic.

LuvLoogie

(6,936 posts)
3. Just tell him that opposition to right-wing bigotry
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 03:40 PM
Feb 2016

is not just another form of bigotry. It is an indication of being socially advanced.

 

Lizzie Poppet

(10,164 posts)
6. Not a straw man fallacy.
Wed Feb 3, 2016, 04:03 PM
Feb 2016

A straw man requires erecting a misrepresentation of another's argument, then refuting that argument and asserting you've proven the person wrong. While the cited paragraph is a disjointed, rambling mess, it commits no straw man fallacy.

There are, however, some fallacies of argument. Unsupported attribution (of 'liberalism' to the people committing violence in Chicago), for one. Not a critical thinker, that one...

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