{"id":6547,"date":"2018-08-07T15:46:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T15:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=6547"},"modified":"2018-08-07T15:46:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T15:46:10","slug":"begging-the-question-fallacy-this-is-not-who-we-are-again-and-again-and-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2018\/08\/07\/begging-the-question-fallacy-this-is-not-who-we-are-again-and-again-and-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Begging the Question Fallacy: \u201cThis is not who we are\u201d \u2026 again and again and again &#8230;\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Previously I wrote about the \u201cBegging the Question\u201d fallacy (and another example here). Immediately after an event, say a mass shooting, a city Mayor says \u201cthis is not who we are\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>after actual events just showed that this is precisely who they are.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2018\/04\/18\/begging-the-question-fallacy-this-is-not-who-we-are-once-again\/\">Begging the Question Fallacy: \u201cThis is not who we are\u201d \u2026 once again | SocialPanic.org \u2013 Occupy Propaganda<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Predictably, after 70 people were shot in Chicago this past weekend, confirming the cities long time reputation for gun violence, Mayor Rahm Emanuel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/breaking\/ct-met-chicago-violence-weekend-shootings-20180806-story.html\">says<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;All of us know that this is not Chicago, what we saw. We are better than what we saw.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is known as the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2017\/09\/19\/begging-the-question-fallacy-in-propaganda-messaging\/\">begging the question<\/a>&#8221; fallacy, which is to assert that something is true, in spite of actual events, and assert everyone agrees with this. This method is extremely common in corporate and government propaganda efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previously I wrote about the \u201cBegging the Question\u201d fallacy (and another example here). Immediately after an event, say a mass shooting, a city Mayor says \u201cthis is not who we are\u2026 after actual events just showed that this is precisely who they are. Source: Begging the Question Fallacy: \u201cThis is not who we are\u201d \u2026 once again | SocialPanic.org \u2013 Occupy Propaganda Predictably, after 70 people were shot in Chicago this past weekend, confirming the cities long time reputation for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2018\/08\/07\/begging-the-question-fallacy-this-is-not-who-we-are-again-and-again-and-again\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-begging-the-question-fallacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}