[WikiEN-l] NPOV is a big lie
David Gerard
dgerard at gmail.com
Thu Apr 9 12:03:40 UTC 2009
2009/4/9 FT2 <ft2.wiki at gmail.com>:
> This is (when stripped down) basically a "straw man" post. It uses quotes by
> others saying "A"as a rhetoric device in a question where the issue isn't
> "A" at all, and in effect, conflates the two to try and make its point. It
> then presents its point as made when in fact it hasn't made it at all, nor
> even contains any attempt to do so. It's either sloppy logic or a rhetoric
> device. Either way it has no place in honest communication, except as a
> mistake to be retracted when spotted.
This is a much better reply than I could have bothered writing.
- d.
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