Moot
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Well, there is definitely a logical fallacy label for your prejudicial use of the word "Sharia law" especially when you soon follow it up with more buzzwords like "terrorist," "murdered", "kill, kill, kill", and oh yes your favorite, "apostasy, adultery, homosexuality, and/or premarital sex are capital and/or corporal offenses." Man, if I had nickel for everytime you said that in context with Sharia Law, I'd be a rich woman.Holy **** stating facts is now paranoia. **** half of those words are paraphrases of Sharia law (oops I guess we can't call Islamic Fiqh Sharia law :roll and half are what the Imam himself has actually said.
I guess this what happens when you completely run out of argumentation, resort to attacking word choice. Christ that's so ****tarded that I don't think they've even bothered to label it a logical fallacy yet, "reductio ad-wordenum", has a certain ring to it but not entirely accurate, oh I know "argumentum ad-verbum," patent pending.
The Buzzword Fallacy might at first be thought to be merely an extreme form of use of prejudicial language. However, the use of buzzwords incorporates two elements not found in mere emotionally-loaded language — deliberate programming of the emotional value of the buzzword through focused propaganda and narrowing of the meaning of the buzzword to a single connotation for those who have accepted the propaganda line.
Ordinary people, who do not control any of the means of mass communication, can generally use prejudicial language to their personal advantage only in the manner discussed under the Prejudicial Language Fallacy — i.e., by attempting to associate with their opponents general words or concepts which already have negative emotional value. However, persons who are able to obtain a captive audience of true believers (as in some political organizations, religious denominations and cults), or who are able to obtain substantial access to the means of mass communication, can do something more powerful than this — they can through various deliberate psychological manipulations program the reflex, "knee jerk," reaction their followers will have to certain terms. This reaction can be either positive or negative, and can be made quite strong.
Moreover, the creators of a buzzword can also make reasoned debate with their followers almost impossible by "locking" the meaning of a buzzword that has several natural meanings into the single connotation that elicits the desired "knee jerk" reaction.....
Erroneous methods of inference yielding convincing falsehoods
It says there that reasoned argumentation, discussion or debate with a knee jerk propagandist who uses fallacious buzzwords like you do, is impossible. But hey, if it's any consolation, I don't think you are alone in your fallacy, because Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck do it, too. They've done it with buzzwords like, "socialism, communist, community organizer, nazi", either as code or in context with Blacks or Liberals. So I just think that pointing out "the buzzword fallacy" might help others to recognize the fallacy for it really is, a manipulative, mind numbing, propaganda technique. Which might also help explain why 1 in 5 Americans believe Obama is a Muslim and why so many are against a Muslim community center being built near Ground Zero.
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