Fallacy of the excluded middle.
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Yeah. I got it. Still, not a good comparison.
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That's not really saying anything. We can't go through all the bad things which are still bad if they happen often but not always until you find one you can live with.
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OK. I just don't think genocide and someone getting forced out of their job are the same things.
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No, it can;t be the same thing. Or it wouldnt make sense. This is how analogies work. Otherwise you'd just be saying one thing is as bad itself.
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OK. Not a good analogy. Muslims in India have historically been subject to tremendous systemic oppression. That is not at all true for Professors with controversial ideas. Quite the opposite.
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Note that the analogy is not on the historical oppression of Muslims in India with western Professors. . It is on the argument that bad things aren't that bad if they don't happen all the time. If an argument doesn't work if applied to something else, it doesn't work.
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It doesn't work. Try something else: If one bad apple rots the entire barrel, so too is this true for oranges.
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That isn't how analogies working for ethical arguments work. Do you think bad things should still be addressed if they happen often but not constantly or not? If your answer is 'Yes, when its murder, not when its unfair dismissal or censorship' you cannot think the latter v bad.
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I think the point he's trying to make is that the
#IntellectualDarkWeb and their hangers-on have created a moral panic out of anecdote. There are 5,300 US college campuses, how many has this happened on in the last year? -
Yes, that is right. It is a "red scare" tactic to draw attention and provoke.
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And it's telling that NONE of the
#IntellectualDarkWeb or their minions ever discuss the opposite. What the Koch brothers are trying to do at George Mason, Wellesley, and many other colleges is so much worse than what the Phantom Boogeyman left is being accused of, but silence.
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