Re:Developers join call for GitHub to cancel its ICE contract
by SkyBelow on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:43PM
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>It's rhetorical tactic, not an argument.
It can be both, and it is hard to determine what the intent is. Was it a propaganda tactic to link two unrelated groups for political goals or was it an extreme counter example?
>In this case, the extreme example was in support of the proposition.
Could you go into this further? As far as I can tell, the original idea was that it was okay to do business since it is just business, and the argument ad absurdum was to bring up Nazis.
It can be both, and it is hard to determine what the intent is. Was it a propaganda tactic to link two unrelated groups for political goals or was it an extreme counter example?
>In this case, the extreme example was in support of the proposition.
Could you go into this further? As far as I can tell, the original idea was that it was okay to do business since it is just business, and the argument ad absurdum was to bring up Nazis.