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by trustfundbaby 5106 days ago
Thank You! ... I see very smart people do this all the time and it simply baffles me.

Just say "Hey, where's your data?" instead of "my friend is Asian, and he's a red head so there goes your argument" ...

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Lots of smart people never studied debate or logical fallacies and never learned the difference between a sound argument and good sounding rhetoric. They get emotional and don't realize they aren't making any sense.