I had it real bad for Bernadette Peters

I hope you’re being facetious. The frizzy hair and squeaky voice ought to have a cold swimming pool effect on any man’s member.

“Insipid ideological idiocy”? I simply recommended to Gbevers that he post his opinions on Dokdo in a manner that just discusses the facts and leave off his negative generalizations of the entire Korean peoples. After having one work contract in his home country (meaning Korea, since he’s been there for decades), I would think you would recommend this as well rather than encourage him to go through another ordeal of not having a work contract renewed because of continued negative generalizations. Somehow, you seem to be encouraging him to continue his ways….then when he either gets fired or doesn’t have his contract renewed again, you’re gonna somehow say he was justified to make his constant negative generalizations about all Koreans …under his own name. At least you, Mizar, are smart in that you hide behind an anonymous ID (or two).

I’m glad you saw the humor in it, to which you deserve credit, although I wouldn’t have minded a more entertaining reaction out of you. I guess it would have taken too long to do the same for all of my posts, especially the Japanese ones!

A great send-off.

Ignoratio elenchi

@31

First of all, I doubt that. We’re talking about Korea, remember?

argumentum ad hominem and
(specifically) genetic fallacy

Third, what’s the harm in making a fairly obvious general observation. Isn’t this pretty general knowledge?

argumentum ad populum

@35

Who would accuse Americans of having their heads in the clouds, anyway. We’re talking about a highly specific Korean trait.

argumentum ad hominem,
argumentum ad populum, and
genetic fallacy

…and have so far escaped the gas chamber..um, pardon, the JK gas machine.

argumentum ad hominem

Koreans make much worse generalizations about Americans all the time…

argumentum ad hominem (Tu quoque),
argumentum ad populum, and
genetic fallacy

As far as I can see Gerry has said something about a current Korean trait that is perfectly obvious to onlookers, which some Koreans apparently may have missed, although smart ones haven’t.

argumentum ad populum,
argumentum ad hominem,
argumentum ad consequentiam, and
genetic fallacy

Now, suppose Gerry had said instead that “Koreans are like frogs in a well.” Wouldn’t that be quite similar? But because it is a generally recognized self-criticism, you technically couldn’t fault him for telling the truth.

argumentum ad populum,
bare assertion fallacy,
inappropriate generalization,
appeal to tradition,
thought-terminating cliché, and
existential fallacy

So what’s the difference here? So far as I can tell the difference lies in the fact that we are talking about a trait that Korean people are largely in denial of - a denial of the general state of denial.

Bare assertion fallacy,
petitio principii
argumentum ad hominem, and
genetic fallacy

But Gerry is a foreigner, so he’s not allowed to recognize or voice the truth.

Straw man argument

Because honesty is just not the custom here.

Bare assertion fallacy,
argumentum ad hominem, and
genetic fallacy

*****

gbevers’ posts:

argumentum verbosium and
argumentum ad nauseam

I had it real bad for Bernadette Peters. As did Steve Martin.

that sounds like the rejected script for Big Fish.

Love that movie.