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Et tu quoque, Trudeau? How Saudi trolls slammed Canada in a diplomatic spat

Tensions between Canada and Saudi Arabia have been building over the past week, and it all started with a tweet. Last week, Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland took to Twitter to expre... read more

Obama gives parting gift to Trump by granting clemency to Chelsea Manning

President Obama’s decision to commute the sentence of Chelsea Manning is a great parting gift to Donald Trump. It’s a Tu Quoque, an argument that exposes the hypocrisy in one’s target, from the Latin: ... read more

Tu Quoque Apologetics

I don’t think that philosophical defenders of theism could ply their trade without employing tu quoque arguments. The use of this device in defense of theistic doctrine goes back at least to Bishop Be... read more

Tu Quoque: Why Dems Would Rather Talk About The Teabaggers Than Themselves

If you don’t like those, you must be stupid or something. My favorite, however, would have to be the tu quoque fallacy: redirecting an attack by appealing to the hypocrisy of the attacker. It’s what w... read more

Jon Stewart’s Lazy, Weak, Fallacious Defense of Brian Williams

His first move was to change the subject. He used a variant of the rhetorical fallacy known as the “tu quoque” argument, or calling out alleged hypocrisy. Taken to its endpoint, tu quoque (“you, too”) ... read more

‘Magical Thinking?’ Tu Quoque, David Remnick

New Yorker editor David Remnick says Obama needs to make dealing with global warming his priority of the second term: But Obama must now defeat an especially virulent form of magical thinking, entrenc... read more

Tu quoque is not a eurozone crisis solution

Confidence-building with Wolfgang Schaeuble (via Reuters): One should differentiate here. We’ve got debt problems some individual countries, not only in the euro zone. The United States have higher de... read more

Atheists Could Learn a Lot from Religious People About How to Win Debates

Religious people and “faitheists ... the tables on these people. After all, they’re the ones making unevidenced claims about reality, not us. So I propose that, when debating the religious, nonbelieve... read more

Kathua, Unnao: Struggle for justice marred by whataboutery

Though I am convinced that it is hard to penetrate sense in those brains that tend to justify a child's rape by nonsensical tu quoque responses, I, nevertheless, want to make some counter points. For ... read more

We must blame Apple for China

The problem is they’re not at all reasonable. In fact, they’re classic logical fallacies. Specifically, they employ the "tu quoque" or, "Two wrongs make a right" fallacy of reasoning: According to Log... read more

How the Latest Obama Scandals Robbed Liberal Media of Their Favorite Defense

You can’t criticize what Obama & Co. did here because BUSH did the same thing!” This logic error is called ‘tu quoque’ or the ‘you too!’ dodge. It’s an attempt to minimize or downplay the behavior by ... read more

Tu Quoque

In one of Christ most quoted statements (quoted, but also very much misunderstood), Christ warns people of excessive judging: the measure by which they judge others will become the foundation for how ... read more