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The No True Scotsman Fallacy
The no true scotsman fallacy is when you keep re defining the thing that you're trying to defend. It got its nickname from the claim that no scotsman ever put sugar on their porridge. The genetic fallacy refers to the genesis of an idea, namely where it came from. If it comes from some group that has done bad things, or is disreputable or untrustworthy in other way, then that idea is dismissed as automatically wrong.
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