Ad hominem

While I was reading it, I couldn't help but think of the anime fan community (as well as the gaming community, and the sad state of U.S. politics) and the "debates" that take place within it. Far too often, they turn into unintelligible battles of ad hominem attacks and self-serving logic, rather than anything of real substance. Much of this boils down to the idea that anyone who doesn't agree with you is either a "fanboy" or "elitist". This attitude towards opposition is not only…

For the last five years plus, I have worked tirelessly and in good faith as an RN at The Berks Family Residential Center, performing above and beyond the expected work standards that are set in place. As a Registered Nurse, the American Nurses Association, a professional organization to advance and protect the profession of nursing, states that “nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the…

the bikini. While Sports Illustrated is trying to bite the bullet for her, and contracts are protecting her rights, it still must be tough receiving such an incredible opportunity and having it get torn to shreds by the public. The utilization of ad hominem is apparent in this scenario, and the authors of the articles cited below have employed this fallacy in order to…

A house divided against itself cannot stand, and America is currently divided. This is not to say as a country we have not always been divided politically ,but in the recent election the divisiveness has become glaring. People have stopped being friends with others, disowned relatives, boycotted businesses, and even gotten divorced over the anger they feel about opinions other people hold. The anger attached to this cycle is palpable and is the root of the problem. This cannot be blamed on one…

Race, class, and gender; these terms are used exhaustively in modern political discourse ad nauseum. Scholars and pundits across the political spectrum debate and ponder as to how they intersect and affect each other, oftentimes coming to wildly diverse conclusions. The bulk of these conclusions are certainly contentious as many are laced with dogmatic political rhetoric, so only those who are in search of confirmation of their viewpoints tend to listen. Each of these terms are invariably…

One fallacy, commonly known as Ad hominem, attacks the person directly suggesting that the other opponent ran out of ideas on the subject. This reasoning focuses the attention on the person who made the argument like criticizing his or her personal appearance. Such fallacy is irrelevant…

Educated people know. And their kids have an advantage. Poor people don’t know.” he declares wealthy people know the importance of brain development and kids whose parents are wealthy have an advantage. And also he uses ad populum argument. He appeals to supposed prejudices by referring the rich know but the poor don’t and people don’t anything for the poor to arouse audiences’ sympathy. He has assumptions that wealthy people know well about education and generalizes…

Animal Farm/Communism Propaganda Propaganda is information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. It comes in several different forms. Such as ad hominem, repetition, appeal to authority, appeal to fear, appeal to prejudice, bandwagon, and the common man. There are several different types used in Animal Farm. Here are some examples. The first sign of propaganda was Old Major’s. He was making a speech about the…

sources to get the ‘bigger picture’ of what is truly going on in the world. The article concludes with “when ridicule replaces reasoned discourse, there’s no longer a place for persuasion,” which is true because similarly it can be considered an ad hominem fallacy. We are allowing the ‘joke’ to be attacking the two current political candidates character instead of showing all the…

Our organization, the Bipartisan Solution, opposes both rightist and leftist extremism and advocates for the use of existing governmental institutions to negotiate solutions to contentious political points, a message that has only become more significant after the extremely divisive election of Donald Trump. The Socialist Alternative is a Democratic socialist political party that organized an anti-Trump protest in Oakland the day after Election Day. News reports estimate that seven thousand…