Reductio ad Terorrism

[kallipolis]

We call them terrorists, but we all know who we really mean...

Here the threat from so-called terrorism has subsided and turned into something else.

Would you be more explicit, by offering us an example, of your meaning?

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Would you be more explicit, by offering us an example, of your meaning?

They mean Muslim radicals. Who else?

Then they try to downplay the whole thing by dragging all kinds of other radical groups into the discussion.

 

[kallipolis]

They mean Muslim radicals. Who else?

Then they try to downplay the whole thing by dragging all kinds of other radical groups into the discussion.

You mean by also including those extremist, right wing groups who are anti Muslim immigration into The Netherlands?

Such legislation must always include those who utilise anti democratic means to further their objectives. Whether they be, extremist Muslim immigrants, or those extremist Dutch people who resort to violent measures, to implement their abuse of their fellow man.

We should recall that as early as 1933, the Nazis were arresting Gays, for suitable treatment, at labour camps. Today, Muslims, tomorrow, Gays.

Democratic government must act with vigour to defend our democratic values, against all who would deny us our birth right, to live in freedom from fear.

 

[SonOfSlobone]

I cannot speak for Corny, but it is my impression that Reductio ad Hitlerum is presented as an example of an increasing propensity to use some form of guilt by association to discredit or demean the ideas or credibility of an entity espousing a viewpoint with which the person who introduces the fallacy may disagree. The technique is effective, to the extent that it is not recognized for what it is.

I can't tell if you're agreeing or disagreeing with me...

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

You mean by also including those extremist, right wing groups who are anti Muslim immigration into The Netherlands?

The problem with that theory is that those groups have existed since WW2, but they never changed the legislation. After The War in Iraq and during the Afghanistan all those measures were put in place. We haven't had any significant other terrorism that could have fit the bill.