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jocelyncs ([info]jocelyncs) wrote in [info]jurisimprudence,
@ 2006-08-16 21:47:00
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The Fallacy Of Contradictory Qualifiers

Inspired by this comment...

 

The Fallacy of Contradictory Qualifiers

  • When the word "but" is added to a self-describing statement, (examples:  I'm not racist, BUT... or I'm not a homophobe, BUT... or I believe in free speech, BUT... or I'm not writing a Mary-Sue, BUT...) it immediately serves to reverse intended meaning of that statement.
  • Thus, you are not what you say your are, or you are what you claim you aren't.

 

(Useful law to invoke when shattering self-delusions.)


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[info]somnambulicious
2006-08-17 02:08 am UTC (link)
This sort of thing is so rampant that at one point, I was going to write an "I'm not a ______, but..." non-sequitur generator. As in:

"I'm not homophobic, but I think Bush's foreign policy is shit."

"I'm not racist or anything, but I just don't like those flimsy plastic bags at the supermarket."

"I'm not sexist, but I think your cat might have fleas."

etc.

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[info]fernwithy
2006-08-17 05:08 am UTC (link)
Oh, if you know how to code that, it would be great!

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(Anonymous)
2006-08-17 05:25 pm UTC (link)
Hahahahaha. Sounds like all those times people assume something is related when it isn't and freak out.

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[info]sarajayechan
2006-08-17 07:28 pm UTC (link)
*dies laughing at example 3*

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(Anonymous)
2006-08-24 03:55 pm UTC (link)
I love example three! You should still write that, if you can. Pwease? A little treat for the little mousie?

~*Voldy*~

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(Anonymous)
2006-09-20 10:11 pm UTC (link)
That would be awesome!

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[info]freezer
2006-08-17 03:14 am UTC (link)
I'm just stunned it took this long for an official law...

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[info]redcoast
2006-08-17 03:39 am UTC (link)
Me too. I felt sure it had been lawed before.

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[info]fernwithy
2006-08-17 05:07 am UTC (link)
Probably everyone did, which is why it wasn't there!

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[info]jocelyncs
2006-08-18 12:39 am UTC (link)
True, it did seem very obvious--until someone said that it hadn't, and I said with shock--"Why the hell not?!"

And here we are.

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[info]khym_chanur
2006-08-17 04:22 am UTC (link)
I'm not a five-dimensional cucumber, but...

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[info]blackjackrocket
2006-08-17 05:37 am UTC (link)
Mmm, five-dimensional cucumber...

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[info]kijikun
2006-08-17 06:25 am UTC (link)
you do go nice in sandwiches...

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[info]amxjm
2006-08-17 05:52 am UTC (link)
Does this fallacy even apply to the classic "doctor" statement or similar such statements? (e.g. "I'm not a lawyer, but I play one on the internets.")

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[info]jocelyncs
2006-08-18 12:41 am UTC (link)
"...but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night!"

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[info]esclaramonde
2006-08-17 01:28 pm UTC (link)
I'm not on topic, BUT I bought exactly the same type of headband (I don't know what to call it) when I went to a Ren Faire a few weeks ago.

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[info]jocelyncs
2006-08-18 12:40 am UTC (link)
That was actually a borrowed wreath from a girlymate on my very first trip to faire last year. The entire costume was borrowed, until I bought my own (would've done like my friends and made one, but I can't sew worth crap.)

Ever been to the Maryland Renaissance Festival? Teh fabulous. That's where that pic was taken.

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[info]squib
2006-08-18 02:01 am UTC (link)
At the risk of doing that "in the good old days" thing, the MD Faire kinda sucks now that tourists have discovered it by the busloads. All the booths are mobbed, they ask for a doctor note if you tell them you need to drop a disabled person near the front gate, the price is holyHELLhigherthanitusedtobe, and the merchants are all cranky.

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[info]popmuzik
2006-08-17 02:15 pm UTC (link)
Thank you, this is way overdue. Yesterday I was headdesking after trying to argue with people on a conservative blog about Why Calling People Racial Slurs is Racist.

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[info]squib
2006-08-18 02:03 am UTC (link)
Oh GODS. Which one, if I can ask? I really wish people like that would get the hell off my side.

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(Anonymous)
2006-09-15 09:09 pm UTC (link)
Random OT drive-by anon commenting, BUT...

Your icon at once terrifies and delights me.

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[info]sarajayechan
2006-08-17 07:31 pm UTC (link)
I'm not on fire, but I could sure use a bucket of water on me right now.

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(Anonymous)
2007-01-03 07:21 pm UTC (link)
I'm not against this law, but I think it is very cool

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