Can you outsmart the fallacy that started a witch hunt? - Elizabeth Cox
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Date: 2020-10-26
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Vintoy
I love this video.
Read up on the McCarthy comme witch-hunt and found out that it was only a legislative inquiry rather than an actual criminal prosecution. Apparently the US had a law called Communist Control Act of 1954 which was struck down by the US supreme court as Unconstitutional.
While the legislative inquiries did defame a lot of people, it had no judicial teeth to penalize the names on McCarthy's list. The whole thing was more of circus rather than a proper trial. If this would have been a criminal prosecution in a court of law rather than a legislative inquiry, which do no posses judicial powers, the prosecution (accusers) would have the burden of proof, beyond reasonable doubt, that the persons on said list were in violation of the Communist Control Act. Otherwise, these people were presumed innocent in the eyes of the law.
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I love this video.
Read up on the McCarthy comme witch-hunt and found out that it was only a legislative inquiry rather than an actual criminal prosecution. Apparently the US had a law called Communist Control Act of 1954 which was struck down by the US supreme court as Unconstitutional.
While the legislative inquiries did defame a lot of people, it had no judicial teeth to penalize the names on McCarthy's list. The whole thing was more of circus rather than a proper trial. If this would have been a criminal prosecution in a court of law rather than a legislative inquiry, which do no posses judicial powers, the prosecution (accusers) would have the burden of proof, beyond reasonable doubt, that the persons on said list were in violation of the Communist Control Act. Otherwise, these people were presumed innocent in the eyes of the law.
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Gregory
Before watching: probably yes? Let s see.
Oh it s about the argument from ignorance. That s an old one! I wrote an essay on Antony Flew s The presumption of atheism at uni that basically makes this point more concretely.
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Before watching: probably yes? Let s see.
Oh it s about the argument from ignorance. That s an old one! I wrote an essay on Antony Flew s The presumption of atheism at uni that basically makes this point more concretely.
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ScytheNoire
Wait, this is exactly what I see Republicans doing all the time. They make a claim, and then tell the media it's up to them to find the evidence. They provide no evidence, they expect the media to find it for them.
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Wait, this is exactly what I see Republicans doing all the time. They make a claim, and then tell the media it's up to them to find the evidence. They provide no evidence, they expect the media to find it for them.
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unicorns
Ok now where can i get such a Demon Of Reason of my own for backing me up when i'm in an argument with people who claim to be intelligent but are actually the _opposite_ of intelligent?
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Ok now where can i get such a Demon Of Reason of my own for backing me up when i'm in an argument with people who claim to be intelligent but are actually the _opposite_ of intelligent?
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John
I wonder if there have been any recent cases in Congress where something was asserted but failed to be proven true? Good thing we are much smarter than those people in the 50s.
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I wonder if there have been any recent cases in Congress where something was asserted but failed to be proven true? Good thing we are much smarter than those people in the 50s.
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Destroyer
Demon of Reason: You're falling victim to an Argument from Ignorance; assuming something is true because it hasn't been proven false.
Flat-Earthers in half a nutshell
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Demon of Reason: You're falling victim to an Argument from Ignorance; assuming something is true because it hasn't been proven false.
Flat-Earthers in half a nutshell
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Invisible
reaching a point where humans' cursed race has to require the devil's help to solve their problems. this is a new low. keep downgrading! lower and lower! human filth!
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reaching a point where humans' cursed race has to require the devil's help to solve their problems. this is a new low. keep downgrading! lower and lower! human filth!
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education
Yep the McCarthy trials were a dark day and overall ineffective. But now we have a better way of recognizing communists: namely they just announce themselves.
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Yep the McCarthy trials were a dark day and overall ineffective. But now we have a better way of recognizing communists: namely they just announce themselves.
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savagecommentary
So, if most of the world's population has spiritual experiences and claim there is a god, the burden of proof is on atheists to prove there is no god?
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So, if most of the world's population has spiritual experiences and claim there is a god, the burden of proof is on atheists to prove there is no god?
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Linda
I'm so hyped that the Demon of Reason is a recurring character! Really enjoying this format and its content. I always learn a bit more with each one.
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I'm so hyped that the Demon of Reason is a recurring character! Really enjoying this format and its content. I always learn a bit more with each one.
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