I was puzzled by this trope from defenders of people like Louis CK. I don't often venture into topics like this (when I'm back to work and my Twitter activity falls to normal you'll see), but when I do someone inevitably accuses me of "looking for things to be outraged by."1/ https://twitter.com/GenericMets/status/1080203658829152256 …
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This is a good argument about how fallacies are used and I agree with Dr. Gorski that one must analyze the content of an argument and not distract by conducting twitter psychoanalysis.
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Unlike anti-vaxxers though, it’s probably best to ignore CK now. He achieved what he wanted by getting the meathead crowd fired up and on his side making him marginally relevant again. He wanted a niche crowd and got it.
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If you want the sub term, these are called appeal to motive fallacies. Technically ad hominem circumstantial, not that it matters.
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Wow, they are super internet-mad at you.
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Is that like supersonic?
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I agree. But all ad homs are not necessarily fallacious. I've hurled a "virtue signaling" or two of my own, mainly at militant vegans/PETA, mostly just before disengaging. The term appears to've acquired reactionary, "anti-SJW" culture-war overtones, which is why I dropped it.
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