A FB meme I saw today.
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Original Question
"If someone says its safe to go to the store, but not to vote in person then they want to cheat in this election. CHANGE MY MIND."
For clarification, they are referring to the COVID-19 situation with opening up stay at home orders and the coming election in November.
Answers
2There's no specific fallacy, merely a bad faith assumption in the form of an unsupported claim. Going to the store is essential; voting is, too - in a way - but not as urgent, and so can be delayed.
I would rephrase this as
If someone says its safe to go to the store, but not to vote in person, then they are likely demonstrating a conservative political bias.
As of now, going to the store and voting in person both have a level of risk. Arguably, the risk can be slightly different for each but to call one "safe" and the other "not safe," would either take some serious science of which I am not aware (e.g., polling machines are virus cesspools that cannot be avoided) or display a clear bias that is in line with the Republican party's goal of limiting voting.
I would not go as far to say "they want to cheat" because I think this is a bias that can be subconcious, meaning they are just supporting conservative talking points via the ingroup bias, but are not sure why.
I acknowledge my possible political ignorance here. 1) I don't know if there is any advantage politically to democrats to discourage voting and 2) I don't know if the Republican party offers a legitimate reason for discouraging voting (general voting, not just certain groups of people voting). Happy to be educated on this.
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