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

Monday, February 5, 2018

Haters Gonna Hate [Kim]

   Recently, Kim Kardashian made the news again with another "out-there" move towards her haters. She sent, not only her "lovers", but her "haters" Kimoji perfumes as a Valentines Day gifts. However, instead of haters the article preferred the term "snake enemies". As one can expect from tabloid gossip, fallacies were incorporated into this mix of Kim K bashing.

1.Ad Hominem
   In the article, several attacks are made on Kim Kardashian. Not only are they quite savage; the article begins with them calling Kim "a lot of things: a culture vulture, a fool, a famewhore, a businesswoman, the spawn of Satan's main homegirl and a petty, petty bitch." These are merely irrelevant attacks, or ad hominems, that don't add to the argument and are not backed by evidence. And then a claim is attempted to be backed by these attacks...

2.Tu Quoque
   Following the "many things" that Kim is the article says that all of these attacks means that "That’s part of the reason why The Receipts of 2016 were such a great strategic move for Kim Kardashian, and why they were so devastating to Taylor Swift’s reputation.” The irrelevant attacks were used to fuel the argument about Kim's strategic moves, which makes this argument inconsistent, or a tu quoque.

3.Hasty Generalization
   Lastly, the article makes the claim that “She [Kim] can’t do anything without everyone jumping on her (fake) ass.” I am sure that a certain amount of people jump on her life choices, but "everyone" doing so is definitely not true, which makes this a hasty generalization.

http://www.celebitchy.com/565192/kim_kardashian_has_sent_kimoji_perfumes_as_v-day_gifts_to_all_of_her_snake_enemies/

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