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by graemep 8 days ago
If you are not going to quote people accused of (or even known to be guilty of) sexual misconduct that covers a lot of authors and creative people in general.
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The point was that the quote being used to falsely denigrate Twain is from an accused predator himself made worse by the fact that it's not anything Twain said which is why someone here also said it showed ignorance.
> is from an accused predator himself

Genetic fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_fallacy

> it's not anything Twain said

Right, Twain wrote it, so:

Distinction without a difference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_without_a_differen...