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| He ain't subversive. He's jest stoopid... |
| 2002-09-16 |
| The Rev. Jesse Jackson yesterday told about 600 Michigan State University students that America's democracy was 37 years old, not 200-plus, and that "democracy as we know it did not begin in Philadelphia, where a bunch of white men wrote the laws." "Nobody's been paying attention to me for awhile. I think I'll say something really dumb..." "These men's wives were not allowed [to vote], these laws were made at a time when only white men had the right to vote," Mr. Jackson said, noting that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was the commencement of "true democracy." I forget what this particular fallacy is called. It's so easy to take the standards of one time and apply them to another, to the detriment of the other. Speaking at the That's what he said about Gulf War I, too. "No blood for oil, bro!" He's boring. Let's move on to something else... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #4 Try delusional self-involved hyperbole. From the John Adams biography chapter I read last night, before the drafting of the declaration of independance. Abigail Adams letter to JA: and by the way in the new code of laws which i suppose will be neccessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power in the hand of the husbands. "Remember all men would be tyrants if they could". JA;s reply: We have been told that our struggle has loosened the bands of government from everywhere; that children and apprentices were disobedient; that schools and colleges were grown turbulent; that the Indians slighted their guardians and the Negroes grew insolent to their masters. But your letter was the first intimation that another tribe more numerous and powerful than all the rest were grown discontented. Maybe I'll buy Jesse a copy of the book, so fine tune his rhetoric with a fact every so often. |
| Posted by: PJ 2002-09-16 11:51:53 |
| #3 Try Historical revisionism |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2002-09-16 11:22:52 |
| #2 I think the fallacy is called historical relativism. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2002-09-16 10:46:06 |
| #1 International law? What be this jive he talkin about? |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2002-09-16 08:11:05 |