Re:Being an asshole does not make you awesome
by jacalata on Monday October 14, 2013 @10:20PM
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For reference, ad hominem means "attempts to undermine an argument based on an irrelevant fact about the person making the argument" (Wikipedia). It doesn't seem unfair to use it to paraphrase the description "your tactic of discrediting the guy rather than looking at what he actually said".
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Re:Being an asshole does not make you awesome
by roarroar on Monday October 14, 2013 @10:50PM
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Exactly. The guy hating women or not is not _irrelevant_, but it's not relevant in the way GP is trying to use it. That's why he tries to play the "ad hominem" card so he can throw up some moronic straw man about relevancy.
Re:Being an asshole does not make you awesome
by jacalata on Monday October 14, 2013 @10:57PM
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Actually I was pointing out that lucisferre's use of the term 'ad hominem' to characterise your comment was completely fair and not 'putting words in your mouth' just because you never used the explicit phrase.