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by falsedan 3108 days ago
All I’m talking about is the dogwhistle, which your comment also has.
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This is like saying that socialized healthcare is a dogwhistle for communism. It's a modified form of a slippery slope fallacy, suggesting that any movement in one direction will cause an extreme movement in that direction[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope

No it’s not. Calls for socialised healthcare are not a coded expression calling for the overthrowing of our capitalist overlord via violent revolution. I know it’s tricky because these look similar but please accept that this is a social problem, not a logic problem, and thus traditional engineering argument techniques are completely useless.