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Originally Posted by mlqurgw
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.
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Best fallacy would probably be the Red Herring: Ignoratio Elenchi ("ignorance of refutation",
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The name of this fallacy comes from the sport of fox hunting in which a dried, smoked herring, which is red in color, is dragged across the trail of the fox to throw the hounds off the scent. Thus, a "red herring" argument is one which distracts the audience from the issue in question through the introduction of some irrelevancy. This frequently occurs during debates when there is an at least implicit topic, yet it is easy to lose track of it. By extension, it applies to any argument in which the premisses are logically irrelevant to the conclusion.
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Because the argument wasn't presented that he should disown his mother, the premise of his argument was diversionary - he was effectively trying to alter the premise of the original argument by moving to an irrelevant topic.