Thursday, October 15, 2009

Okay, Just Another Little Taste.

So, one guy at my work brings up how the British High Courts called An Inconvenient Truth alarmist and wouldn't allow it in schools without opposing views. Here's what one of my other coworkers replied:

What if I said I knew of a documentary that proved the Holocaust never happened and that a British High Court had determined that some film about the Holocaust was over-stated and inaccurate? Would that be credible at ALL? Are you seriously telling me that you would find such things evidence that the Holocaust was a “hoax”? Judges aren't historians. Documentarians can make films purporting to refute anything. One sign of ideology is when you give credibility, willy nilly, to evidence that has none.

"Sounds like something Hitler would say" would have been more concise, but that's pretty good.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

When a person uses the term "what if" then they have no real example to support their position. It's a straw man argument of the worst kind.

CJ said...

Wow. I hate people more each day. Hitler and this guy'd get along great.

Maximum Colossus said...

It's not even really a straw man, it's a ridiculous distraction.