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fallacy question
« on: March 09, 2011, 11:43:58 PM »
I was debating a progressive, and he got me with a left hook "oh, you watch Glenn Beck, this conversation ends now because he is a racist/idiot etc" even though I was not using Glenn Beck as a source for any argument even though he was using a Village Voice  article that was horribly written hack/yellow journalism ... So if some one says "oh you watch blank blank, you're wrong"
I know its a fallacy-I just cant remember which one. ... appeal to authority maybe?
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Re: fallacy question
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2011, 11:56:45 PM »
Quote from: gunsmith on March 09, 2011, 11:43:58 PM
I was debating a progressive, and he got me with a left hook "oh, you watch Glenn Beck, this conversation ends now because he is a racist/idiot etc" even though I was not using Glenn Beck as a source for any argument even though he was using a Village Voice  article that was horribly written hack/yellow journalism ... So if some one says "oh you watch blank blank, you're wrong"
I know its a fallacy-I just cant remember which one. ... appeal to authority maybe?

It's kind of a mix of Association and Ad Hominem
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Re: fallacy question
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2011, 12:15:23 AM »
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Re: fallacy question
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2011, 12:42:09 AM »
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Quote from: RevDisk on April 06, 2012, 10:15:08 AM
Politicians and bureaucrats are considered productive if they swarm the populace like a plague of locust, devouring all substance in their path and leaving a swath of destruction like a firestorm. The technical term is "bipartisanship".
Rocket Man: "The need for booster shots for the immunized has always been based on the science.  Political science, not medical science."

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Re: fallacy question
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2011, 01:30:56 AM »
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Quote from: RevDisk on April 06, 2012, 10:15:08 AM
Politicians and bureaucrats are considered productive if they swarm the populace like a plague of locust, devouring all substance in their path and leaving a swath of destruction like a firestorm. The technical term is "bipartisanship".
Rocket Man: "The need for booster shots for the immunized has always been based on the science.  Political science, not medical science."

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« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2011, 01:34:59 AM »
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Quote from: RevDisk on April 06, 2012, 10:15:08 AM
Politicians and bureaucrats are considered productive if they swarm the populace like a plague of locust, devouring all substance in their path and leaving a swath of destruction like a firestorm. The technical term is "bipartisanship".
Rocket Man: "The need for booster shots for the immunized has always been based on the science.  Political science, not medical science."

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Re: fallacy question
« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2011, 02:16:53 AM »
Quote from: gunsmith on March 09, 2011, 11:43:58 PM
I was debating a progressive,

There's your fallacy. You don't debate progressives. You can only talk sense at them. (Not to them, obviously.)

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I went down the list, and stopped at Argument By Laziness (Argument By Uninformed Opinion).  Close enough.
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« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2011, 02:53:51 AM »
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Re: fallacy question
« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2011, 09:41:34 AM »
Quote from: gunsmith on March 09, 2011, 11:43:58 PM
I know its a fallacy-I just cant remember which one. ... appeal to authority maybe?

Argument by dismissal.
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Re: fallacy question
« Reply #9 on: March 10, 2011, 09:39:52 PM »
It's that one where they're doing it wrong. And being annoying about it. 
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