The Fallacies of Weak Analogy/Compostion, and Equivocation wrapped up all nice with a bow.
Hey, he's just telling you the truth..
Explanation
Arguments by analogy rest on a comparison. Their logical structure is this:
(1) A and B are similar.
(2) A has a certain characteristic.
Therefore:
(3) B must have that characteristic too
After discussing the irresponsiblity of African men as setting the status qou of African men at the 1% percentile, Obama goes on to elaborate on his lessons of his father-in-law by saying "and I know of no better example of than this than my father in law Michelle's dad
"Fraziers Robinson" (***
ED.note the stinky red herring)
>Franzier Robinson
>at the age of 30
>was stricken with multiple scherlosis
> by the time I met him
> by the time I knew him
>ah, He had to walk with a couple of walkers
> a couple of canes
> everywhere he went
>ah and he never went to college
>BECAUSE he
grew up a time there where not a lot of opportunities
>So he worked at a water filtrations plant downtown
> right by the navy pier
>and
he worked there all his life
>and he'd have to
wake up an hour early
> cause' of his
"DISABILITY"
>an hour earlier than
"anyone" else just to get to work on time ***
Ed. note I'm
assuming even earlier than
"irresponsible" "lazy" "black people" with
"no disablilties"
>
BUT he "never" missed a days work **
Ed.note That's a reprimand
>he
never missed his sons basketball games
>he
never missed his daughters recitals
>he was
always there for them
>and
he always loved them
>and always rooted for them and
"inspired" them
>he took
responsiblity
>he could have used his
"DISABILITY" as an excuse
Ed.note
Fallacy of equivocation Equivocation is the
type of ambiguity which occurs when a
single word or phrase is ambiguous, and this
ambiguity is not grammatical but lexical. So, when a phrase
equivocates, it is not due to grammar, but to
the phrase as a whole having two distinct meanings.
Of course, most words are ambiguous, but context usually makes a univocal meaning clear. Also, equivocation alone is not fallacious, though it is a linguistic
boobytrap which can
trip people into committing a fallacy,
or buying into one.
The Fallacy of Equivocation occurs when an equivocal word or phrase makes an
unsound argument appear sound. Consider the following example:
All banks are
beside rivers.
Therefore, the
financial institution where
I deposit my
money is
beside a river.
>
"JUST LIKE" he could have "
USED RACISM" as an
"EXCUSE" (ED. note "why did Franzier Robinson raise his children under these disabiling *racism, discrimination, ect. conditions if he loved his children so adamantly; if he wasn't using an
excuse,; was he
priveledged, or
more fortunate than other
African people being discrimated against, or being enslaved, or experimented upon, end note>) for "NOT CARING" for his children.
>
"BUT" he was there
>
all the time
> "
THAT'S a LESSON we HAVE TO EMBRACE IN OUR COMMUNITY
>Taking
"RESPONSIBILITY" (for discrimination, genocide, and the illegal institution of slavery)
"NO MATTER WHAT THE HARDSHIPS">TO BE THE "kinda" of 'father' "OUR CHILDREN" "NEED US TO BE"
.......................the
ones who no there place.
