Fallacies in the news
The Radio Factor, Bill O'Reilly makes a comparison to the Third Reich: “The ACLU is the most fascist organization I have seen in decades. They want to tell you how to live. They don’t want to abide by the Constitution. They want to go around the Constitution. They’re intellectual fascists, and they use the courts as their Panzer divisions.”
This would be the slippery slope fallacy. The ACLU's real job according to www.aclu.org is "We work daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Our job is to conserve America's original civic values - the Constitution and the Bill of Rights."
Just because the ACLU wants to allow people to live the way they wish, they are now fascists, and they want to go around the constitution. In fact, the ACLU makes sure the contemperary laws do not go beyond the constitution. O'Reilly takes a simple group, and makes them out to be fascists.
This would be the slippery slope fallacy. The ACLU's real job according to www.aclu.org is "We work daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Our job is to conserve America's original civic values - the Constitution and the Bill of Rights."
Just because the ACLU wants to allow people to live the way they wish, they are now fascists, and they want to go around the constitution. In fact, the ACLU makes sure the contemperary laws do not go beyond the constitution. O'Reilly takes a simple group, and makes them out to be fascists.
posted by Layc @ 10:51 AM
1 Comments:
At 4:42 PM,
David said…
This seems more like a straw-man fallacy or an ad hominem fallacy than a slippery slope.
A slippery slope is usually something like: "If I let your group have a couple of more days to do their talk then I have to let every other group have a couple more days and then the whole class would degenerate into anarchy and then we'd be eaten by bears."
Well, maybe not the last bit about the bears, but you get my point.
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