To: Ursus arctos horribilis
You stated Whites have no bond to other Whites as a whole, only to their own particular White ethnicity. I have never stated that. You're involved in a typical strawman fallacy.
The 'Strawman' fallacy consists of creating a flimsy caricature of your opponents view, and then demolishing it, rather than arguing against your opponents actual views.
'Strawman' is one of the best-named fallacies, because its name vividly illustrates the nature of the fallacy. Imagine a fight in which one of the combatants sets up a man of straw, attacks it, then proclaims victory. All the while, the real opponent stands by untouched. In a dialectical contest, this is what the Strawman amounts to.
For example:
george wythe: Larry King does not have strong muscles.
strawman answers: You said that Larry King has no muscles.
Another example:
george wythe: Caucasians do not have a strong ethnic bondage similar to blacks or Hispanics Ursus arctos horribilis: You stated Whites have no bond to other Whites as a whole, only to their own particular White ethnicity.
I definately don't have a strong bond to your fallacious reasoning.
To: george wythe
You stated Whites have no bond to other Whites as a whole, only to their own particular White ethnicity.
"I have never stated that. You're involved in a typical strawman fallacy."
Really, in your own words you stated: "Caucasians do not have a strong ethnic bondage similar to blacks or Hispanics.
So, according to you Caucasians are not synonymous with the White race, the two words, White and Caucasian, are not commonly used interchangeably, that Caucasians are merely an obscure ethnic group from the Caucasus Region located on the southern slope of the Caucasus Mountains .
Yes, I now understand the meaning of a strawman, it is synonymous with stupid. As in, it is stupid to accept such tripe as that which you proffer for logic.
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09/17/2003 9:09:34 PM PDT by
Ursus arctos horribilis
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