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Re:CloudFlare CEO says his Daily Stormer takedown was “arbit... by xiaoma on Friday August 18, 2017 @03:37PM (#15049105)
Giving you the benefit of the doubt that you're trying to understand, I'll restate the logical fallacy a bit more formally:

    Person A believes thing 1.
    Person A believes thing 2.
    Therefore people who believe 1 also believe 2.
This line of reasoning can be rhetorically powerful but it's flawed and, IMO, toxic to the discussion.
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Re:CloudFlare CEO says his Daily Stormer takedown was “arbit... by zimpenfish on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @04:51AM (#15079723)
> the far-right (and to some extent the MRA movement since there's a strong overlap

What I actually said was:

    People in set A believe thing 1.
    People in set B believe thing 2.
    There is a strong overlap between set A and set B.
You'll note there's nothing about a causal connection, only a correlation.

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