Threat To Dox Missouri Police Chief's Daughter: Article Analysis

“It’s unfair to compare people from a hundred years ago or even 40 years ago to people today…” (17) Fapple Paltrow states his opinion responding to the article, written by Adam Weinstein, “Anonymous Backs Off its Threat to Dox Missouri Police Chief’s Daughter.” As a plethora of commenters swarmed the article to voice their opinions, many could have had a strong argument but failed to provide evidence to make it persuasive. “The numbers say we aren’t killing each other as much… has to do more with globalized economic interest” (18). A statement made by chupacabraburrito in response to Fapple Paltrow’s previous comment. Like this comment and many others, the comments are missing many factors to be considered persuasive when analyzed such as committing fallacies towards specific subjects, the negligence to provide evidence that could back up their claim, and creating contradictions within their argument when trying to provide evidence. Having the ability to access articles like this one at our fingertips opens up …show more content…
People believe she should be punished by association for being related to the chief and because of that she automatically has to have the same views as her father. For example, Namahottie states “next week another young kid is killed at the hands of a cop” (3). Namahottie uses faulty causality claiming a kid will be killed because the police chief’s daughter is just as racist as he is. They provided no evidence to showing how there is a connection between the police chief’s daughter and any kid being killed by a cop. To better this argument, Namahottie should have qualified the claim by using the words such as, “possibly” or “perhaps” in their statement. Some may think this weakens the claim, but it actually strengthens it by showing each side has been well thought through and includes all