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Thought terminating cliche example, plus bonus dogmatic fallacy when people insist the only moral thing to believe is that it's a genocide and bonus ad populum when the argument involves "well most people say it is so it must be"

Extra bonus because the antizionist movement is where most of my content comes from nowadays, often involves an appeal to ignorance fallacy when people insist since there's "no proof it isn't it must be"

I am making this in good faith and I genuinely want an answer, ideally from someone who believe this.

With the current information we have, why do people insist Israel is committing a genocide?

South Africa is trying to extend the deadline to find evidence of genocide to present in their court case against Israel. Israel also makes efforts to minimize civilian casualties like warning before they attack and try to get as many people to evacuate as they can before they move to an area.

Under international law, hamas occupying hospitals and schools means that they are no longer protected areas and in those places, any civilian casualties caused by reasonable force are attributed to hamas and therefore don't count towards evidence of genocide.

Death toll doesn't automatically equal genocide as there has to be intent for it to count as one.

We can all agree that Israel has committed war crimes and even if they didn't, what is happening is utterly terrible.

So why insist on it being a genocide instead of a terrible war? Why can't it be a massive tragedy without it being called a genocide?

And I know I'll get certain comments from other jews so I'll make it explicitly clear, I'm not talking about antisemites who call it a genocide because they want a socially acceptable excuse to hate jews, I'm talking about people who are not antisemitic and call it a genocide

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Fantastic example of a thought terminating cliche (and also jfc i cannot understand what that therapist was on about your fiance needs a new one)

Actually am still kinda pissed that my fiancé's psychatrist evaluated him for anxiety and said he didn't have it but then was like "in the future I'd like to see you make enough progress with your anxiety that you feel comfortable taking your mask off" and didn't seem to care when he explained that his fiancé(me) has several severe chronic illnesses and immune issues so we both do what we can to ensure I don't get sick with any illness, not just covid. Like does he have anxiety or not?? You can't have it both ways buddy!! And like it or not protecting a vulnerable person from getting sick is logical, YOU'RE the one being irrational here.

Like this is why I get pissed about mask stuff, people have legit fallen into some kind of thought-terminating cliché about covid and all other contagious diseases not being a problem anymore to the point that they think even sick people and their loved ones taking reasonable precautions to protect their health is a sign of anxiety and paranoia. I truly do not get it. Like it's one thing if you personally don't want to mask but at least leave people who do alone, but legit acting like people like me are insane for doing something that makes perfect sense is turning me into the Joker. It doesn't even work to say "oh I have asthma and allergies and the air quality is bad today" or "I'm having an important surgery soon and need to make sure I don't get sick" like they think masking AT ALL in any circumstance for any reason means you've legit lost your mind.

I genuinely feel like the government suddenly started hiding all the national car crash statistics and insisted in tons of press conferences that crashing your car is actually perfectly fine and not a big deal at all and wearing a seatbelt isn't something healthy people need to worry about, so now everyone thinks it's silly to wear one and every time I do I have to deal with people implying or outright stating that I'm legitimately mentally ill and need an intervention.

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Yeah i hate to break it to you celtyradicalfem but you have a piss on the poor understanding of what a strawman is and i can't tell what your problem with OP is

The Handmaid's Tale wasn't so much about a future United States as it was about raising awareness that THIS IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.

Handmaid's Tale is "what if the horrificly patriarchal theocracies that exist halfway around the world, but it happened to white English Speakers JUST LIKE YOU?"

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Following you is promising myself endless supply of stupidity, so I won't do it, I just wanna say that I love your work!

lmao thank you very much

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the best antidote for a sunk cost fallacy is to be a quitter. im serious. be aware of when you're invested in finishing something because you've already been struggling with it for a while or because you made it (aka the ikea effect), if it's not serving you stop wasting more resources on it and marie kondo it into the trash.

my trick for getting through grad school is learning to navigate the quadrants with all their nuances

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look, man, if you think an antizionist jew calling out holocaust revisionism/denial is “not extending grace to people who critique zionism and it’s influence” then i think this isn’t actually about I/P for you.

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im not purposely attempting to only have jewish stuff here but yall are so good at spotting fallacies from a mile away it saves me a lot of work lol

comment on a video about leftist antisemitism by Marla Alpert on TikTok, in reference to “it’s antizionist not antisemitic”

​the “heritage not hate” comparison is right on the money. they’re both thought-terminating clichés that allow the user to avoid any critical introspection about whether & how their “heritage���/“antizionism” manifest in bigoted ways.

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Disgust has absolutely no ethical weight. If you are basing your ethical positions on the emotion of disgust you should stop, it is entirely unjustified and leads to a huge amount of harm.

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hate to ruin the vibes but this is confirmation bias my dudes

plenty of people predicted incorrectly this is just a coincedence

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People have already done an excellent job explaining why this is strawman and loaded question, thanks for making my job easier lol

It's also an example of false attribution- appealing to an irrelevant, unqualified, unidentified, biased or fabricated source in support of an argument.

“I don’t hate Jews, I just hate Israelis!” I don’t know how to tell you this. But hating someone because of their nationality or national origin is still a textbook form of bigotry…

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Ambiguous middle term: are we talking about feminist spaces as in advocacy groups, are we talking about feminist spaces as in spaces that are feminist, are we talking about women's spaces as in spaces originally girls-only that added nonbinary people and trans girls for inclusion, are we talking about women's spaces specifically for survivors of abuse, are we talking about spaces for survivors of abuse at the hands of cis men, are we talking about a women's knitting group, are we talking about a nonprofit organization at a college that's required to help all female students, or are we arguing in circles because of course people can have an ice cream social specifically for a gender but excluding people past an ambiguous threshold of masculinity at a support group doesn't work?

You don’t belong in feminist spaces because you’re a man I hope this helps <3

this might blow ur mind but i think even cishet men belong in feminist spaces bc they’re the target audience.

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not technically a fallacy example per say but kind of mentions one and i like it

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The slippery slope fallacy is an argument that claims an initial event or action will trigger a series of other events and lead to an extreme or undesirable outcome. The slippery slope fallacy anticipates this chain of events without offering any evidence to substantiate the claim.

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A straw man fallacy is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction. One who engages in this fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man"

Essentially, the person props up an easily defendable position and doesn't engage with the real argument, e.g. yells at someone for "how dare you suggest people can kill babies for fun" if all that was said was "abortions to save a mom's life should be allowed"

Hey transphobia and any kind of hate is obviously wrong. But no people have the right to tell people who they have to want to sleep with.

No always means no; whether you’re trans or not, gay men don’t owe you a reason.

What you said about gay men having to try sleeping with people with female anatomy really isn’t okay :(

i'm sorry anon but you are a transphobe. i am gay men.