Since the 1960s, the republican party have been appealing to race as a tactic to win in the south. I think that’s an excellent reason to call someone racist, actually.
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No, that’s not accurate, actually. As @some_guy noted, it’s about economic democratic leveling. It proposes the notion that the people, not a corporation or a state (actually) should hold the means of production and should benefit from it. It doesn’t ignore the fact that human beings do have different abilities, it accepts that and assumes that all sorts of jobs are worthwhile and necessary.
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I’m wondering if that has an official fallacy name?
Looking at the list at Logical fallacy - RationalWiki, It looks like a variation on type 3 of Tu quoque combined with Blaming the victim
Police officer: “Alice, we found 1.21 jiggabytes of illegal goat porn on your laptop, what do you have to say for yourself?”
Alice: “But officer, you must have looked at the goat porn to know what it was, so you’re as guilty as I am!”
There is a very high chance someone who thinks this is a clever retort is either a freeman on the land / sovereign citizen or an extremely stupid anarchist.
Can anyone help?
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If Democrats were able to successfully retool their party’s platform to the point where the KKK and other hate groups abandoned then en masse then the GOP can do the same.
When every major White Supremacist group in America still supports your party then that means your party still has a lot of work to do on combating White Supremacy.
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I don’t think it’s officially a fallacy.
Tu quoque would be the closest. But it looks like a case of simple projection to me.
“I’m not the puppet, you’re the puppet! You the puppet!”
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What’s with the hand signs those three guys are making?
Not sure, might be a 3%er thing.
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I’ve seen that hand sign thown by known KKK members in photos. Like late 1800s even.
I’ve been told it’s supposed to “look like a K” and since it’s done with 3 fingers.
At the risk of further derailing this thread, I knew a guy in college (friend of a friend) who was straight up Albino. He hung out with the metal radio DJ’s I knew, and I’m told was a seriously amazing guitar player. Musical genius type, I heard. (Could be, my school had a good music program, and I used to take from the guitar instructor, who was a weathered jazz virtuoso).
This Albino fellow popped up in my social media feed, so I was curious what he’s gotten up to. Guess he’s got a band in LA these days, but he’s the singer, not the guitar player.
That’s the music biz folks. You can make a better living as an albino singer than you can as a guitar virtuoso. Just ask Sammy Hagar!
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Sure that wasn’t this one?
https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/ku-klux-klan-hand-sign
The gesture looked more like “the Circle Game”
Except over the pants pocket and not the crotch. A lot like in the photo.
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The ADL and the Southern Poverty Law Center seem to think different, but who knows.
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Never said I was right. Just what I remember. I could have remembered wrong.
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Au contraire, mon ami…
A simple paraphrase reveals a gross generalization which has no basis in proof. I am afraid it is you that has been fooled…
The odds that there is a name for a logical fallacy that would be specifically used by an old, straight, white man when arguing against a gay/non-straight/non-male person is rather low.
A certain group in society has the market cornered on named logical fallacies.
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I like to use this OK sign.
Be seeing you!
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Yeah guys, never mind the reality that racists support Trump, benefit from Trump being in power, keep racist republicans in power by voter disenfranchisement of minorities, and literal nazis are marching in the street chanting his name.
The headline is totally hyperbolic, for sure.
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