To: pcstel who wrote (82543 ) 7/10/2018 8:29:34 PM From: combjelly Read Replies (1) | Respond to Ok, along with many other things, you don't know what an ad hominem attack is.Ad hominem Jump to navigation Jump to search "Personal attack" redirects here. For the policy on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:No personal attacks . Paul Graham 's Hierarchy of Disagreement lists ad hominem as the second lowest type of argument in a disagreement.Ad hominem Latin for "to the man" or "to the person" [1] ), short for argumentum ad hominem [2] The terms ad mulierem [3] and ad feminam [4] have been used when the person receiving the criticism is a woman.[5] ad hominem reasoning is categorized as an informal fallacy , [6] [7] [8] more precisely as a genetic fallacy , a subcategory of fallacies of irrelevance .Jump to navigation Jump to search Whataboutism (also known as whataboutery ) is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument, [1] [2] [3] which is particularly associated with Soviet and Russian propaganda . [4] [5] [6] When criticisms were leveled at the Soviet Union during the Cold War , the Soviet response would be "What about..." followed by an event in the Western world . [7] [8] [9] the Troubles (conflict) in Northern Ireland . [10] [11] [12] Lexicographers date the first appearance of the variant whataboutism to the 1990s [1] [10] or 1970s, [13] while other historians state that during the Cold War, Western officials referred to the Soviet propaganda strategy by that term. [7] [14] The tactic saw a resurgence in post-Soviet Russia , relating to human rights violations committed by, and criticisms of, the Russian government. [7] [15] [16] The technique received new attention during Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea and military intervention in Ukraine . [17] [18] Usage of the tactic extended to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his spokesman, Dmitry Peskov . [19] [20] [21] The Guardian deemed whataboutism, as used in Russia, "practically a national ideology". [22] Journalist Julia Ioffe wrote that "Anyone who has ever studied the Soviet Union" was aware of the technique, citing the Soviet rejoinder to criticism, And you are lynching Negroes , as a "classic" example of the tactic. [23] Writing for Bloomberg News , Leonid Bershidsky called whataboutism a "Russian tradition", [24] while The New Yorker described the technique as "a strategy of false moral equivalences". [25] Jill Dougherty called whataboutism a "sacred Russian tactic", [26] [27] and compared it to the pot calling the kettle black . [28]
