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Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o... by textgel on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @09:49AM (#23551328)
Well lets see... oh that's odd, that meaningless term appears to have a real meaning https://debate.fandom.com/wiki/Kafka_Trap . Now why would you be willing to lie about that?

Seems it's a perfectly accepted logical fallacy; and the only people who deny it are the sjw crowd largely because it is such a favoured tactic within their ranks.

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Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o... by textgel on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @10:20AM (#23551704)
Yes those are dictionary's for definitions of words not a repository of debate tactics; if you'd checked you'd also notice that there's no entry for "motte and bailey falacy", "Appeal to Ignorance" or "appeal to authority"; funnily enough it doesnt prevent those existing either.
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Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o... by DagAgren on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @10:33AM (#23551891)
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/...

Still not seeing it.

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Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o... by textgel on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @10:43AM (#23552019)
Well yes if you purely limit yourself to a single college of liberal arts list of definitions then you won't, however search engines are your friend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

And desperately clinging to any page-not-found of whatever website you can find to display it isn't exactly the most secure display of debate.

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Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o... by DagAgren on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @10:46AM (#23552058)
Ah yes, Wikipedia, with one source form a libertarian propaganda rag. Very reputable.

Nobody but libertarians looking for excuses for racism use that term, deal with it.

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Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o... by textgel on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @11:03AM (#23552262)
And at last you've taken my advice

> Using a kafkatrap against an opponent you can't beat in debate when they have just pointed out the tactic is probably ill advised; perhaps try something else; Ad hominem or motte and bailey for example.

Allow my to quote from one your trusted sources: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/...

> Ad hominem: This is an attack on the character of a person rather than his or her opinions or arguments.

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Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o... by DagAgren on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @11:05AM (#23552281)
Feel free to provide me wrong by showing a non-libertarian source that takes this term seriously.
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Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o... by textgel on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @11:19AM (#23552465)
Appeal to authority (points for variety at least) is a logical fallacy that I literally pointed out earlier.
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Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o... by DagAgren on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @12:12PM (#23553076)
You really don't understand how logical fallacies work at all, do you.
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Re:For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part o... by textgel on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @12:51PM (#23553599)
Well I must admit I haven't had as much practice at them as you have.
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