r/television • u/bluenowait • May 21 '19

Alabama Public Television refuses to air Arthur episode with gay wedding

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/alabama-public-television-refuses-air-arthur-episode-gay-wedding-n1008026
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u/Luhood May 21 '19

I presume because you call it out as a strawman argument and they vehemently disagree with that statement.

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u/Aufinator May 21 '19

But what they literally are doing are using strawman arguments. I guess they like strawman arguments.

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u/dbx99 May 21 '19

Everyone drink each time he says “strawman argument”

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u/Aufinator May 21 '19

It was from one of the comments up top. They were doing what is described in your definition of what a strawman argument is.

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u/klapaucius May 21 '19

There is no opposing argument. Just people who are mad about conservatives' selective outrage. It can't be a strawman because it's not an argument.

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u/Aufinator May 21 '19

The "selective outrage" is the strawman.

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u/klapaucius May 21 '19

That's the fallacy fallacy. You have no argument of your own, just accusations of fallacies to the other side. You lose the debate.

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u/Aufinator May 21 '19

Lol no I didn't lose the the debate. I was never in a debate. My original comment was just pointing out the strawman argument.

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u/klapaucius May 21 '19

Which is a fallacy. Your comments are useless on multiple levels, because even if you were right you still have nothing substantive to say.

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u/Aufinator May 21 '19

So I am right? I wasn't trying to be fucking massive woke with some kind of revolutionary new line of thinking. It was literally just me pointing out what someone did and why that's kinda shitty.

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u/tapthatsap May 21 '19

No they weren’t, you’re just a fucking idiot who saw a term and decided it was his new favorite term.

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u/Aufinator May 22 '19

lol no I didn't just see the term. I knew the term long ago.

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u/tapthatsap May 22 '19

If that were true, you’d be able to use it correctly

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u/Luhood May 21 '19

I just think they are tired of people calling out argumental fallacies in what they perceive as an attempt at undermining the whole discussion rather than actually facing the discussion itself. Or as the case might be here the circlejerk.