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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsQuestion 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
LuvLoogie
(6,936 posts)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.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)LuvLoogie
(6,936 posts)is not just another form of bigotry. It is an indication of being socially advanced.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)With a side of this:
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Appeal_to_bias
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,155 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)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...
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)fuck 'im
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)Liberals don't kill... if you do, then you can't be a liberal.