Post #2763919

2026-05-22 05:45 UTC

Attacking the person and not the point? Should I have termed it as ‘Poisoning the well’ or something else? What term would you have used?

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@LeninsLinen@lemmygrad.ml 2026-05-22 06:58

An ad hominem would be to dismiss an argument by attacking the person or circumstances. You know, like calling someone a Russian bot. Secondly, I think you missed the point of the image. You claim to believe America is bad, but simultaneosly adopt it’s views on geopolitical rivals uncritically. Yes, including the view that anything that portrays the west in a negative light being “Russian propaganda”. Funnily enough, that’s the real ad hominem and is something incredibly common to hear coming out of liberals.

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@potustheplant@feddit.nl 2026-05-22 07:29

While that is correct, it’s not what the comment you replied to did. There’s no criticisim to you as a person. It simply says that the argument reads as “whataboutism” so yup, your reply doesn’t really make sense.

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