Comment on Is there a word for when a bad person who got exposed for things deliberately finds "questionable" things about the person who exposed him?

ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Ad hominem fallacy. The person who has been exposed for various things, instead of trying to refute the argument of the accuser (e.g. “they’re misrepresenting the facts”, “I couldn’t have done that here’s an alibi”)

Instead, they are just accusing the accuser of something to make others distrust them. All of the examples youblisted were ad hominem attacks against your friend.

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