Personal Attack is defined as attacking the person personally rather than dealing with the issue. Rather than having logical evidence which supports a particular theory pointing to personal characteristics, whether true or not to support an idea.
Without even understanding what happened the teacher blamed the black girl for starting the fight by stating, “Because she is African American, and raised in an African American society, she is more likely to be a more aggressive individual, because they believe it is acceptable to fight all the time anyway.”
In this case the teacher is only looking at the race of the individual and making the assumption the African American student was responsible due to heritage in correlation with her disposition,
Without even understanding what happened the teacher blamed the black girl for starting the fight by stating, “Because she is African American, and raised in an African American society, she is more likely to be a more aggressive individual, because they believe it is acceptable to fight all the time anyway.”
In this case the teacher is only looking at the race of the individual and making the assumption the African American student was responsible due to heritage in correlation with her disposition,