The blunder has been well known since the time of Aristotle, under that name.
But Hinderaker thinks it… persuasive rhetoric.
Charming.
As ever, the reason he is persuaded… is that it purports to validate his irrational prejudices.
But sure “I’m your Huckleberry, John” — let us play this game: let’s have him answer for the number of hetero whyte men under the age of 22, in an alarming spike since 2017 — appearing among the ranks of mass shooters:
“…Dylan Roof [cough! Kyle Rittenhouse], James Alex Fields, Payton Gendron, and… in addition to Buffalo and Uvalde, Texas, there was a mass shooting at a supermarket in Boulder, Colo., in March 2021 that the police said was carried out by a 21-year-old man; a massacre by what authorities said was a 21-year-old gunman targeting Hispanic shoppers at a Walmart in El Paso in August 2019 that resulted in 23 deaths; a school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas, in which a 17-year-old student is accused of killing eight students and two teachers in May 2018; and the killing of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in February 2018 by a 19-year-old former student.
Prior to 2017, only two of the 30 deadliest mass shootings recorded (from 1949) involved gunmen younger than 21: The first was the massacre of 13 people by two teenagers at Columbine High School in 1999, and the second came when a 20-year-old killed 27 people, most of them children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in 2012….”
Let go of your trans-phobia, Hinderaker — and do take a long, hard look at the disaffected young whyte (failed but hetero) incels your brand of hatred fosters.
Then get back to me. [Many of them have cited their “inability” to attract a female mate as a factor in their violence. That they are unattractive, because they hold views like yours — but aren’t in their 70s… is no surprise at all.]
Your supposed two (trans-), versus… my 14 (single whyte hetero males under age 22) just since 2017.
As long as we are trafficking in fallacies of composition — mine is the far more numerous… “composed” set of killers.
That much, you must admit.
Cheers.
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