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Originally Posted by intricatic
Hmm, thinking about it now, since we're in an election season, it may have been wise to start this thread in the Politics section - then we could analyze all of the logical fallacies the politicians are using in their campaigns!
Obama: "I can no more disown [Jeremiah Wright] than I can my white grandmother ? a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe." -- what logical fallacy is this?  |
Though I am not well versed in logic I will give it a try. It seems to me to be a diversionary appeal to emotion. It is also avoiding the issue by comparing apples to oranges, unless he intends for us to think his grandmother is a racist, which I seriously doubt. Would that be the fallacy of the excluded middle? At first glance there may seem to be a connection between the two but there actually isn't.