• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    it’s called guilt by assocation. it’s shitty and lame type of logical fallacy

    if you live on the same street as a nazi, you must be a nazi. because apparently you have to sell your home and move away if a nazi moves in.

    of course, if you do this and it’s a non-white person you are racist… and a bad person, but if you do it for a nazi you’re a good person.

    it’s not as if the logic of the thing is what at’s fault, and the accuser has hyperbolic sense of other people’s social obligations to appeal to their sensibility.

    • deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zip
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      8 hours ago

      I would like an explanation as to exactly why a Nazi and a non-white person are comparable categories of people.

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      5 hours ago

      I’m not sure where to start here, so here are two equally important building blocks.

      First, aside from other reasons the Nazi/minority is wrong, you are comparing a label somebody gets for existing the way they were born with a label somebody gets for actions they take that harm other people.

      Second, some kind of mishmash of the terms “social contract” and “paradox of tolerance.”