Demographics and politics. What are the fallacies people use when describing Trumps base.

Politics and party affiliation have demographic trends. A trend I've seen and other people as well is that a large portion of non-college-educated whites voted for Trump. A lot of them went for Obama, Kerry and Gore in the past but turned to Trump. ...

Principle of Charity

Consider this example from an article discussing a computer programming textbook.  The first paragraph is from the textbook; the second from the article Your computer can only understand machine logic, a compact series of computer-readable ins...

Ben Shapiro (not exact quote, paraphrase)

Because it has the name "boy" in it boy scouts is for boys only not for girls.

Appeal to extremes? Absurdity?

I just had a situation come up where a person said "But you can't be 100% sure  that there is no possibility of this" well, no, I can't be sure that the earth won't get hit by an asteroid and we're all wiped out tomorrow either, so they're perh...

Logical implication and evidence

From what I’ve read on Wikipedia, a valid logical implication is only when P is a sufficient condition for Q. So if something is a cat, it logically implies that it’s an animal. This also means that correlation does not imply causation s...

"Why is stealing wrong? Well, first of all, staling is taking another person's property. Second, taking another person's property is impermissible. That's why stealing is wrong."

what fallacy is the above?

"Why is stealing wrong? Well, first of all, staling is taking another person's property. Second, taking another person's property is impermissible. That's why stealing is wrong."

"Old" Way of Doing Things

There is an advertisement (at least, one), where it is stated that a new, 'bunyon', treatment, is better than the "old" way of, 'surgery'.  What type of fallacy is it when some, thing, is included in the argument that is not a real, or related...

Is asking for better evidence moving the goalposts?

I've gotten into arguments with friends about whether or not certain opinions are popular. (For example, whether or not anime is popular in the US, whether or not certain video games are popular, or whether or not people think suicide is funny.) I'v...

Is saying that people dying from disease isn't as bad as people dying in a mass shooting an "Appeal to Nature?"

I've often complained about how nobody seems to care that hundreds of people are dying from disease, yet everyone makes a big stink about people dying from mass shootings. After pointing this out, some tried to justify it by saying people dying from...