What a touchy subject: Politics. I came across the article: “Lie,Exploit and Destroy”, written by an OP-ED Columnist, Charles M. Blow in The New
York Times.
Blow criticizes Trump
in every sentence to make sure his audience walks away thinking that, “Trump is
just the worst person in the world.”. When I came to the end of this extreme
leftist post, I realized that all of the claims he was making had hardly any
written evidence to support or validate his conclusion. There is no consideration
of down-plays in his argument, its his way or no way which leads us to another
fallacy of Black-or-White and he admits that himself:
“In the space, everything must exist
at its extremes. Everything is love or hate, big or little, best or worse. And,
everything is very, very, very.”
It wasn’t to my surprise that this entire blog post is a
one-sided fallacy; from the article itself to the comments which were
algorithms to place “The New York Times Picked”, comments first in supported of
their articles conclusions.
“My sense is that absolutely nothing
will be beyond the pale for Trump. He will lie, exploit and destroy. If you
think he’s dangerous now, you haven’t seen anything yet.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/opinion/trump-lie-mueller-investigation.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion-columnists
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