You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: HOW TO STOP ONLINE HATE AND FAKE-NEWS AND CON-ARTISTS
From that link I found this one in particular interesting:
From No. 23 The Bandwagon Fallacy:
A contemporary digital form of the Bandwagon Fallacy is the Information Cascade, "in which people echo the opinions of others, usually online, even when their own opinions or exposure to information contradicts that opinion. When information cascades form a pattern, this pattern can begin to overpower later opinions by making it seem as if a consensus already exists."
A long read. Must take a break.
Thanks for providing the link. I was looking for the "you are naive, a dreamer argument" - maybe it'll come :)
That's a classic ad hominem.
Anytime you address the speaker (you're naive, you're a partisan hack, you're being disingenuous, you're being emotional) instead of the argument you are engaging in an ad hominem attack.
Oh, thanx, that I find a good response, the "engagement". This is so often forgotten.