In a recent video, Will Witt went around Rodeo Drive talking to random non-experts and using a number of fallacies to invalidate the gender-identity of transgender children. In my latest response video, I expose some of those fallacies.
Some of the main fallacies that I call out are the False Analogy (which seems to be one of Will Witt’s favorites) the Appeal to Consequences fallacy (which, in this case, Will Witt compounds together with his false analogy) and the Straw Man Fallacy.
A False Analogy is when you assume just because two things are the same in one respect that they must be the same in other respects too, to the point of drawing conclusions about one based on what is already accepted as true about the other — to the point of ignoring possible ways that the two might be fundamentally different.
The Appeal to Consequences fallacy is when you know that if A is true than B must be true (A⇒B) you conclude that A therefore can not be true (∴ ¬A) despite having failed to first properly confirm that B is not true (¬B).
The Straw Man fallacy is when instead of arguing against someone’s actual position, you instead present an argument against a weaker caricature of that person’s position.
Will Witt does other nasty stuff as well – such as (but not limited to) failing to treat the opinion of non-experts as non-expert opinions. Watch as I explain all this and more in my response video on YouTube.
