Links to rhetorical tools:

Here are links to the rhetorical tools used in this class:

Schemes & Tropes -- Perelman & Olbrechts-Tyteca -- Fallacies -- Burke -- Rhetorical Toolbox -- Conspiracy Rhetorics

Thursday, February 8, 2018

Leave Wilson Alone!


https://hotair.com/archives/2018/02/05/chuck-schumer-lets-face-trump-dangerous-worst-man-ever-president/

Fallacy #1
- Quoting out of context
Chuck Schumer: Let’s face it, Trump is the most dangerous — and worst — man ever to be president
- The very title of the article is a logical fallacy because it doesn't give the appropriate context of where Chuck Schumer said this statement. Did he say it at a dinner party when he was trying to make small talk? To a reporter? At a hearing. By not knowing the context of the statement our understanding is severely damaged

Fallacy #2
- Hitler Card
To come back to the Wilson comparison, though, it may surprise you to know that despite being a garbage heap of a human being, Wilson frequently lands among the top ten when historians are asked to rank the greatest presidents.
- The author talks about Woodrow Wilson as if he was the worst thing to happen to America, putting Trump in the same authoritarian category as him when in reality the two are separated entirely by historical context. Even if he was a 'garbage human being' as he said he was, that has absolutely nothing to do with how he did as president of the U.S. and is a weak comparison.

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