As we’ve seen in the famous Jordan Peterson / Cathy Newman interview, leftists have only tricks, not logic, in their skillset.
We saw a few here:
- Trying to declare them guilty of the “fallacy of composition”, the belief that something true of part of a group is true of the entire group: Some “dreamers” are criminals, you don’t like criminals, here is a particular Dreamer, therefore you must think this Dreamer is a criminal, ha ha gotcha.
- “Appeal to pity” and “appeal to poverty” are self-explanatory. Note this the one-two combo of the single mother with child, which was in fact a lie, as...
- ...we soon saw that she had a fiance, and he was in the Army, not on welfare or a criminal. Add “cherry picking” to the list.
- “Guilt by association”: “Ok, Sean Hannity, give it a rest!” Ha ha, how the audience roars. Gotcha! No, desperation.
- “false choice fallacy”: Either deport the both the mother and child (you heartless people!) or neither. Whoops, the panel knew a number of other choices.
There are others, but you get the point.
Note that a number of these happened simultaneously, and the rest in rapid succession. The guys that set this up were experts, as that’s all they think about. If you don’t know that these logical fallacies are waiting for you, you will have a hard time quickly countering them. But these guys knew that lies and tricks were the coin of the realm, so they were well prepared.
“..the guys that set this up were experts, as that’s all they think about...”
Of course. It’s what they do, 24/7.
Good to see it shoved back up their asses by people that know how to play the game.