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Beware the Fallacy Bully
Fallacy Bullies see themselves as independent critical thinkers who can see through propaganda, but they often use logical fallacies as weapons against others and react defensively when their own thinking is questioned. While promoting the teaching of logical fallacies, Fallacy Bullies ignore subtleties in their application and use them in an overly blunt manner.
Beware the Fallacy Bully
- 1. I am anindependent Critical thinker. That makes me rare and special. Fallacy Bullies pride themselves on being independent critical thinkers.
- 2. you are aLlshEep being fed a diet of lies ! Fallacy Bullies think that most people are uncritical consumers of propaganda …
- 3. and the truth wiLl blow — …but they can see behind the propaganda and unmask the truth. your — Mind. oh my!
- 4. Fallacy Bullies takepleasure in pointing out fallacies in the reasoning of the people whose views they oppose … FA LLA C Y heRring red !
- 5. … but reactdefensively to any suggestion that they themselves may be guilty of fallacious thinking … FALLACY straw man! uMm… i think you may be guilty of an ad hominem here … sliPpery slope! false dileMma!
- 6. … or inthe grip of cognitive biases that may be distorting their own views. FA LLA C Y ever heard of the fundamental aTtribution eRror? liar! moron! Oo oHh !
- 7. Fallacies Bullies promotethe teaching of fallacies … these principles should guide aLl our thinking.
- 8. but ignore thesubtleties of when they legitimately apply and when they don’t … APpeals to authority are always faLlacious. ! remember that.
- 9. FA LLA C Y FALLACY … and inpractice, use them as blunt weapons of war. FALLACY FALLAC Y come at me, bro!
- 10. FA LLA C Y FALLACY Beware the FallacyBully! FALLACY FALLAC Y come at me, bro! K D
- 11. Beware the FallacyBully. K D www.criticalthinkeracademy.com This is not what critical thinking is about.