You will recognize them by their logical fallacies. Familiarize yourself with logic and you will be able to see through the fog in politics the media, advertising campaigns and even in your own conversations with family, friends and acquaintances. But don’t blame yourself if you have been unaware of the principles of logic until now – it appears that the educational system has managed to neglect the art and science of logic for a very long time.
“I don’t want a nation of thinkers,
I want a nation of workers.”
– John D. Rockefeller
He got his wish, by golly! Perhaps aided by the generosity and power of the famous NGO,
The Rockefeller Foundation? See
https://rockfound.rockarch.org/education
Logic is the foundation of a good education and of honest discourse, but logical fallacies prevail today, even at the highest levels of government and industry. The Public Relations and Advertising agencies use logical fallacies to sell their clients’ wares, which include cigarettes, breakfast cereals, political figures and wars.
“Mandalorian” star Gina Carano made headlines this week when she was fired from Disney. Her crime? Authoring a social media post comparing the censorship of conservatives to Nazi persecution…
“Because history is edited, most people today don’t realize that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbors hate them simply for being Jews. How is that any different from hating someone for their political views?”
A spokesman for LucasFilms responded to this statement by declaring that Carano’s “social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”
Can’t find the “denigration” in Carano’s post? Progressives find it because Carano is on the wrong side politically speaking, and while words are slippery things of myriad meanings, being on the wrong side and saying something in defense of that side is wrong. Therefore, Carano’s comments must be denigrating or racist or some other nasty thing. You may not think it’s that simple, but for millions of thoughtless Americans on the left, it is.
It doesn’t matter that Disney is a hypocrite for allowing Carano’s liberal co-star to post photos comparing American-Mexico border detentions to Nazi concentration camps. Nor does it matter that Disney turned a blind eye when another of their employees posted a cartoon of a bloody woodchipper with the words: “MAGAkids go screaming, hats first, into the woodchipper.” Disney will get away with the Carano firing, and in a week the incident will be forgotten, yet another sign of the fact that we are losing.
We are losing because our side assumes that reason can prevail when it comes to the confrontation of ideas. It can—but only when both sides are committed to reason…
Read more at https://patriotrising.com/reason-cant-prevail-against-an-irrational-opposition/ and learn more about thinking logically on the web… search and you will find a plethora of articles about logical fallacies.