dastanktal
@dastanktal@hexbear.net
Baby Marxist.
Currently deprogramming and chewing though the reading list
I like to argue as a way to learn. I won’t use fallicous argument techniques if you won’t. I will still try and be polite though. Will probably keep commenting as long as people respond.
- Comment on Verified Steam game steals streamer's cancer treatment donations 3 days ago:
Not sure what you’re talking about, the root password is not set, and that prevents people from being able to log into the account. Pretty standard setup on most computers nowadays where the root password isn’t set on Linux.
And the entire OS is basically reaf only except for a few select folders. So for security, it’s pretty solid. You can’t just install a package on a steam deck, you have to use flatpack to get a package installed, or you have to install a steam game.
- Comment on Japan asked countries to skip China's WWII commemorative events in Sept. 4 weeks ago:
Must have missed that in my lesson about unit 731.
- Comment on Japan asked countries to skip China's WWII commemorative events in Sept. 4 weeks ago:
Didn’t the Japanese kill millions of Chinese?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
This is really well executed, too bad he didn’t know enough to protect his identity.
Still, so much for that reduced cost of labor.
If more people reacted like this companies wouldn’t be so fast to lay people off
- Comment on Arch Linux continues to feel the force of a DDoS attack after two brutal weeks — attackers yet to be identified as project struggles to restore full service 4 weeks ago:
Dumb script kiddies probably judr wking life difficult for everyone for shits and giggles
- Comment on Finland | Minister: "Burkas and niqabs are not suitable for school" 1 month ago:
News to me and everyone else in this thread that’s been discussing an article which talks about Finland specifically proposing a law to ban the burka.
- Comment on Finland | Minister: "Burkas and niqabs are not suitable for school" 1 month ago:
Point out where I straw-manned you, I’d love to see.
Point out the motte, and point out the bailey. I do not change my position from one extreme to another more acceptable one.
Moving the goalpost? Somebody doesn’t remember what I said earlier, which is that if Muslims wish to wear religious garb, they should be allowed to, in countries like Finland, which is where this law is being proposed. If I recall correctly, you were the one that brought up Iran and Iraq in Afghanistan. Which one of us is moving the goal post? Definitely not the person bringing up random theocratic countries to try and prove their point that Muslim women in Finland are forced to wear burkas.
I’d love to see where I use an ad hominem attack. It’s not an ad hominem attack if it directly relates to the points of your argument.
What false equivalency did I use? Comparing Judaism to Islam? These are both highly Orthodox religions where women are restricted in various garbs and forms, but the difference between Judaism and Muslim is that Jewish women generally wear wigs, not burkas. Let’s just forget the fact they’re both Abrahamic religions. 🙄 this is also not whataboutism, it’s making like comparisons to the types of restrictions that can be put on religion using your logic that you’ve introduced in your comment when you responded to me about people being forced to wear religious garb.
I hate to burst your bubble, but dismissive sarcasm is not a fallacy.
Apparently there was a sale at the bad faith argument store because you’re full of nothing but bad faith arguments. You can’t engage with any point I bring up and run to the fallacy market.
Lets play a game, how many fallacies can I count in your argument?
Everything listed below comes directly from your comments which can be verified by the modlog.
Nobody wears a burka or niqab because they genuinely want to.
This is the implied fallacy. The logical inconsistency here is it makes a major assumption about the wants and desires of people discount any form of autonomy. In this one statement, there’s a number of formal fallacies that can also be pointed out, but we’re just gonna stick to informal fallacies for the sake of tearing your argument apart and brevity
If you’re not willing to grant me that virtually every woman wearing a burka or niqab does so because she has to, not because she wants to, then we’re so far apart on this that there’s nothing to discuss.
This is a good example of something called the Divine Fallacy. This is a fallacy where your inability to imagine women who would be willing to wear these religious garbs causes you to insist that practically no woman would wear these garbs if given the choice. Completely ignoring the reality all of the women who live in countries where it’s free to practice religion, that wear those garbs, and all of the women who convert to that religion, who wear those garbs.
In Iran, women are required by law to wear the hijab. In Afghanistan, they’re required by the Taliban to wear a burka or at least a niqab. In Sudan, hijab was mandatory for women until 2019, and the same applies in Saudi Arabia and the Aceh province of Indonesia
This is a classic example of a “moving the goalpost” fallacy. In the context of this thread, we were discussing a Finland minister who has proposed a law to ban women from wearing Islamic religious garb in school. Hopefully you read the article so that you would know that’s what the article is about. Bringing up Islamic countries that are governed by a theocratic government does not invalidate the claim that women can and do choose to wear Islamic religious garb in countries they are not required to do so and do so of their own free choosing.
But sure - go ahead and call me racist for even daring to suggest they’re doing it for any reason other than their own free choice.
This is not an adhominem if the statement you made is also racist. Also, I didnt call you racist, I called that statement and your opinion racist.
Strawmanning, motte-and-bailey, whataboutism, moving the goalposts, ad hominem, false equivalence and dismissive sarcasm.
This form of argumentation is actually known as the invalidation fallacy. It is an attempt through argumentation to invalidate an argument without having to engage with the argument by pointing out fallacies made in the argument. Generally used by debaters who are intellectually lazy and dishonest.
Was there a sale at the bad-faith argument tactics store?
This is actually a good example of an ad hominem because you have yet to engage with a literal single point that I made and instead revert to attacking my character.
Just to make sure things are incredibly clear and so that we understand each other here are the facts:
- Finland has a minister who wants to ban burkas from schools in a way that only affects islamic religious garb
- there are many, many, many women who convert to Islam all the time and willingly choose to wear those garbs.
- this has nothing to do with Iraq, Syria, Indonesia, Afghanistan, or any other Islamic Theocratic country. We are specifically talking about Finland.
- it is racist to target a religious minority with a law that only affects the religious minority
- I can’t determine whether or not you’re racist, but your opinion regarding Islam is racist, essentialists and your making wild negative assumptions of offensive stereotypes.
In conclusion, this finland minister is trash, and anyone who supports such regulatory policy is also trash.
- Comment on Finland | Minister: "Burkas and niqabs are not suitable for school" 1 month ago:
Ah I hope you can forgive my ignorance. I thought we were talking about a proposed law that directly discriminates against Islam in Finland.
Not theocratic countries that had there politics “reset” by the west multiple times.
It is interesting that I was talking about how Muslims should have the freedom of religion in places like Finland and then you immediately pivot to how oppressive countries, which you also note have loosened the restrictions for the last 7 years, have laws about religious garb. In a theocracy. That isn’t democratic.
Good similie. Definitely pokes a ton of holes in the “this minister is xenophobic and Islamophobic for trying to introduce this law” and isn’t a red herring fallacy.
- Comment on Finland | Minister: "Burkas and niqabs are not suitable for school" 1 month ago:
“grant me my racist stereotype, or I’m not talking to you”
Interesting strategy, cotton, let’s see how that plays out.
- Comment on Finland | Minister: "Burkas and niqabs are not suitable for school" 1 month ago:
Maybe this European country could also make a law that prevents children from face masks prevent them from getting diseases or prevent immunocompromised patients from wearing face masks since they’re both forced to?
Nobody wants to wear a face mask because they genuinely want to.
I really can not believe you just used the line that nobody wants to wear this religious garb of their chosen religion and culture. Let’s just ignore the major amount of assumptions and xenophobia present in this line of thought.
The factor of the matter is, you have no idea why people choose to wear that, and while I’m sure some people may be coerced into it, but for the most part, I’m positive that the majority of people are choosing to wear these garbs willingly.
Are you really about to sit here and tell me that there’s a difference between a yamaka and a burka? Do people willingly choose to wear yamakas, or do they have to wear them? Do people choose to wear dastars or do they have to be worn? Given this is a European country, I’m going to assume that there isn’t any sort of religious law here, meaning that people can dress how they want.
I can very easily make this argument that you made about yamakas and why those should not be allowed in public, and then I can use the fact that the country that claims to be the sole representive of Jewish people, is using their religion to commit a genocide, so I can even make an argument that wearing a yamaka causes people to feel unsafe in public areas.
- Comment on Finland | Minister: "Burkas and niqabs are not suitable for school" 1 month ago:
This is stupid but also dumb. The article said that it would make it illegal to wear face coverings. So does that include, like, medical masks?
This law is just straight up Anti-Islam.
Can you imagine the outcry if a similar law was passed to prevent people from wearing yamakas on the idea of “freedom”?
- Comment on Finland | Minister: "Burkas and niqabs are not suitable for school" 1 month ago:
Still pretty anti-muslim.
The paradox of tolerance is that in order to have a tolerant society you must be intolerant of tolerance. Not allowing people to wear religious garb due to some perceived notion of freedom, I would say is pretty intolerant.