(May 16, 2016 at 2:38 am)A Theist Wrote: Here's one for the liberals from Amiri King
I typically like Amiri King. However, on that video, he's exhibiting more than a little bit of selection bias, "counting the hits while ignoring the misses", so to speak. There have been many violence-prone, belligerent idiots on both sides of that political furball, from out on the fringes of each movement. People on both sides who point to the extremes are idiots to do so, unless they can demonstrate that such attitude is shared by the ordinary member, or the majority of the membership of the group being described. He doing what is called a Hasty Generalization fallacy, in other words.
If you think for a moment that the people to whom Amiri is referring in that video are representative of "YOU LIBERALS!", then you've been watching waaaaaayyyyy too much Faux News.
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