Disrupting Bad Faith Arguments For Good

When it comes to homelessness, politicians and community leaders often toss out quick one-liners. On the surface, they sound like common sense. But look closer and you’ll see they’re actually logical fallacies — cheap shots that keep us from real solutions.

That’s part of what makes them so slippery: they sound reasonable, so they can be hard to counter on the spot. Calling them out might not change the mind of the person saying them, but it can help everyone else watching see the holes in the argument.

I love those memes of football referees calling out false logic. If public debate had referees, here’s what they’d be throwing flags on in a few of the housing and homelessness conversations happening in my area just in the last week:

Image from ​https://jpellegrino.com/teaching/reflogic.html. 

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