All day long I have been fuming about this and I am glad that I waited to post it. I COULD BURN

[RainDog]

146. This post is an "appeal to emotion"

not logic, not fact, not reality. However, it's very hard to talk about this reality here on DU because it is such an emotional issue.

What happened to the woman was horrid.

That does not mean that people are raising their sons to think that violence against women is acceptable. That does not mean that Mylie Cyrus had anything to do with the incident. That does not mean that violent porn has any relationship to this incident.

If these beliefs, not facts, were true, however, these were also true:

Josephine Baker caused the rise of racism/fascism in France by dancing in scanty clothes.

Rock and roll destroyed the morals of the youth, with that Elvis guy gyrating on stage... which was taken from the acts he saw in clubs playing rhythm and blues and jump.

Madonna was responsible for Iran-Contra.

However, if you point out these logical fallacies, you are the a heartless, thoughtless, MRA-advancing advocate of DM - a set of beliefs that are as inaccurate as the ones I presented above.

I REALLY REALLY REALLY hesitated to post anything at all in this thread, but this sort of propagandistic conflation of correlation with causation is one major reason for misinterpretation around here. The intention to present propaganda as fact is, most likely, not even intentional - when someone holds a belief, not a set of facts, so strongly as a given, it's entirely likely that this is what is assumed to be "reality."

When anyone questions this... logic makes you a bad person in some people's eyes.