Comment on Left wing fact checker admits Trump never called Charlottesville neo-Nazis ‘very fine people’
Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca 5 months agoYeah I understand the argument here: Somehow, mixed in among those white supremacists and nazis were some very fine people who just happened to find common cause with racists and fascists, but remained morally and ethically seperate from the groups they were marching together in the streets with. I find this assertion unconvincing.
jimbolauski@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Is your argument that having any view similar to a white supremists or Nazi that makes you a white supremists or Nazi?
Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
No, I don’t make that claim because it is too general. It seems like a setup for a reductio ad adsurdum argument that I don’t feel like I want to cooperate with.
I’m saying that if one finds themself marching in the same protest in the same street on the same side as david duke the notorious klansman, then one is not in my opinion a “very fine person”.
jimbolauski@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Guilty by association is a common logical fallacy, it doesn’t matter how you try to narrow down.
Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
We are not talking about association, we are talking about participation. There is a big difference.
Anyway go ahead and explain to me how there were some perfectly normal non-racist people there protesting the removal of a pro-slavery war monument, and that’s who Donald “immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country” Trump was talking about.