[lbo-talk] letter to editor

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Wed Aug 25 12:09:30 PDT 2010



>So prior to that was just bliss and racial harmony?
>
>Wojtek

You're funny.


>Moving the goalposts, also known as raising the bar, is an informal
>logically fallacious argument in which evidence presented in
>response to a specific claim is dismissed and some other (often
>greater) evidence is demanded. In other words, after an attempt has
>been made to score a goal, the goalposts are moved to exclude the
>attempt. This attempts to leave the impression that an argument had
>a fair hearing while actually reaching a preordained conclusion.



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