HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-210 hours agoOpposition to the butchery in Gazalemmy.worldimagemessage-square284fedilinkarrow-up11.79Karrow-down143
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minus-squareQuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·6 hours ago“She suddenly became political a few years ago by promoting the invasion of ukraine. Peak russian asset.” Is it an ad hominem when you include the rest which explains the claim made you excerpted?
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 hours agoYes. Any attacking of the messenger to deflect from the message is ad hominem. And trying to move the attention from Israeli genocide onto a tangential topic is called forum sliding.
“She suddenly became political a few years ago by promoting the invasion of ukraine. Peak russian asset.”
Is it an ad hominem when you include the rest which explains the claim made you excerpted?
Yes. Any attacking of the messenger to deflect from the message is ad hominem.
And trying to move the attention from Israeli genocide onto a tangential topic is called forum sliding.