Anti-War, My Foot [Hitchens]

Slate ^ | September 26, 2005 | Christopher Hitchens

[bitt]

whew!!! Excellent Rant!!!!!!

[willyboyishere]

Thanks for the correction, I actually do appreciate it.
Apparently I have been using it incorrectly all these years, but have never been corrected---(maybe my intent was not perceived or understood )Now I wonder if there IS
a similar phrase to describe the contention of that poster that all the "debate" was really "about" was two Leftwing pseudo-capitalists helping each other sell books.
Maybe "reductio ad cynicismus?"

[willyboyishere]

To add, what I always assumed that
the "translation" of R.A.A. implied that
the speaker in question was posing his argument
or contention in terms that grossly oversimplified
the facts, and in so doing, reduced them to absurdity.
Like saying for example that we are in Iraq "for oil".

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

in reality they are straight-out pro-war, but on the other side. Was there a single placard saying, "No to Jihad"? Of course not. Or a single placard saying, "Yes to Kurdish self-determination" or "We support Afghan women's struggle"? Don't make me laugh.

When I agree with Christopher Hitchens, I really agree with him.

[DBeers]

We should be worried about the amount of people who showed up on such short notice - especially now that their figurehead has been arrested. This will only enrage the unwashed commie masses.

??? Worry about moonbats who show up? LOL These twits have been enraged since 2000 let them count chads and sit in ditches and PROTEST -who cares they are irrelevant and quite passe...

[q_an_a]

a surprising bit of inside stuff about the left in the 50s can be found in the PBS bio movie on Dylan. More than one person talks about the soviet and trotsky arguemnts in the Village and the Dylan could not have cared about the politics he wanted to be famous. Too much stuff to consider without watching this one more time. But Martin Scorse has done a good job on this story. I'm not much of a Dylan fan, but history is interesting.

[ccmay]

what I always assumed that the "translation" of R.A.A. implied that the speaker in question was posing his argument or contention in terms that grossly oversimplified the facts, and in so doing, reduced them to absurdity. Like saying for example that we are in Iraq "for oil".

I think that is an example of the logical fallacy of the hasty generalization, or perhaps the fallacy of circumstantial ad hominem or the fallacy of the single cause. Or maybe all three, and more besides. There is an astonishing number of logical fallacies that people are prone to.

-ccm

[45Auto]

These moonbats are cut from the same cloth as those who did the same things 40 years ago. Some may be acting out of what they think is a sort of compassion for people they think are "oppressed". But most are simply jealous, disaffected, morons who think they are owed something by those of us who actually have worked for what we have. The basis of their "protest" is not against war or any connected issue - it is that they want to take away the property and wealth accumulated by others - and give it to themselves.