Oldbear83 said:
Waco1947 said:
303Bear said:
Waco1947 said:
Appeal to ridicule is a type of appeal to emotion, a logical fallacy which seeks to instill a particular emotion in the readers rathole than address the intended issue. The appeal to ridicule, which is also called reductio ad ridiculum, or more strangely the Horse laugh. That name is ridiculous, as this fallacy has nothing in common with horses (who spend most of their time grazing in the pastures and don't give two dumps about debating,) and any laugh one may get is a sort of fabricated Schadenfreude that has been engineered solely to make your target look like an idiot. The biggest difference from humor/satire is that humor is funny, and while appealing to ridicule is funny for those who oppose the targeted opinion/group, it makes those guilty look like dickholes. The formula goes like this:
* I don't agree with X.
* Therefore, X is stupid and deserves my mockery and ridicule
* Oh I know! I think I'll make an entire website that ridicules X and calls adherents of X a bunch of nasty names for everyone who agrees with me to laugh at to make themselves feel powerful! That's definitely the most rationalthing to do.
This can be a difficult fallacy to avoid, as some people are clearly very uninformed, and pointing out their stupidity is a very tempting thing.
* 1 Who uses this?
Everyone. Because face it, it's fun to laugh at people you don't like. I'll show them I'm a smarter person than them with my blunt honesty and delightfully cruel wit! Anyone with half a brain will laugh, it'll be a very swell time!
Objection, non-responsive. If you are going to blanket threads with logic lessons, at least try to apply them correctly.
. Yep, right logic lesson. Take look at how so many make fun of the test. They are following their leader. It's beyond sad it's shreds debates standards.
No Waco, people are not making fun of DNA tests, they are making fun of Ms. Warren pretending the results say something they clearly do not say.
Yep, my results from for a DNA swab, which is fun by the way, showed 8+% native. I knew one GR grandparent was mostly native, like 75% so likely from them. Did show other traces equal too or less than 1% from 7 or 8 places, and then of course 80 something percent European, mostly Scotch/Irish.
I only met 2 of my grandparents, the 2 other were long gone when I was born. Never came close to seeing a GR grandparent, so there is no Heritage there, just a very small part of my DNA.
So since I'm 11X more Irish than Native, why would I pretend to be a Native. She is like 1000X more European than Native, that is what you call the WHITEST of white folks.
We all got some mix, we almost all have some native, why play it up, when it ain't hardly anything.
And then saying Trump disrespected her "Heritage", what garbage, she has no Native heritage.