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Around 2010, I remember it being in vogue to cite specific logical fallacies when you felt an interlocutor used one. It felt like a way someone could declare victory. Continued discussion usually devolved into calling each other morons. (Maybe I was just young).

I don't see it much anymore. The exceptions are motte-and-bailey and survivor bias, both of which have fun pictures. But things like "no true scotsman" have vanished, gone the way of "epic" and demotivators.

with 2000+ years of human history at our fingertips, I feel that it's become impossible to avoid "whataboutism"

 

[payn]

with 2000+ years of human history at our fingertips, I feel that it's become impossible to avoid "whataboutism"

It's actually pretty easy to avoid it. Whataboutism is purposefully changing the subject to take control or change direction of the discussion.

 

[overgeeked]

There are four lights.

 

[The Firebird]

with 2000+ years of human history at our fingertips, I feel that it's become impossible to avoid "whataboutism"

Apropos of little: there is an example that comes to mind from the opening chapters of Les Miserables, the bishop's conversation with an old member of the Convention.