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HughBeaumont

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10. "Not as Bad as" is a conservative favorite.

Reply to trotsky (Reply #6)

Mon Jan 30, 2017, 12:40 PM

Jan 2017

It's how they get to argue that there's no poverty here because our citizens aren't eating breakfast bugs or living in tents amid dust storms or mud huts.

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"Apples and oranges" arguments - there's a name for this [View all] Freddie Jan 2017 OP

A non sequitur? JaneQPublic Jan 2017 #1

"There's a name for this kind of argument...but I can't find it..." skylucy Jan 2017 #2

A red herring? ck4829 Jan 2017 #3

False equivalence? Croney Jan 2017 #4

Yes ! And how about the folksy "Grasping at straws" Laura PourMeADrink Jan 2017 #8

I'm not exactly sure but it's hella annoying Proud Liberal Dem Jan 2017 #5

The first one (comparing women's rights) is called the fallacy of relative privation. trotsky Jan 2017 #6

That's it! Thank you! Freddie Jan 2017 #7

I'd say the tu quoque fallacy is closest. n/t Greybnk48 Jan 2017 #9

"Not as Bad as" is a conservative favorite. HughBeaumont Jan 2017 #10