Banning classic texts
The motte-and-bailey fallacy in action
We saw a lot of motte-and-bailey fallacies deployed in 2020. The most famous was perhaps the ‘defund the police’ slogan that really did or really did not mean actually defunding the police, depending on who you talked to and at what stage of the debate, and that may have contributed to a surge in violent crime in America.
A motte-and-bailey is a type of…
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