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The Monster Tu Quoque Stalks the Land

I don’t know of any parents that ever let that argument pass. If it was stolen cookies and “but Bart did it too!” was raised in Defense in Family Court, the answer was, invariably and universally ... read more

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

Amid the ongoing diplomatic feud between between Canada and Saudi Arabia, Saudi Twitter accounts have used the opportunity to attack Canada and pull at national tensions. They accuse Canada of, among ... read more

TU QUOQUE.

This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not ... read more

What does et tu brute mean?

The other well known version of these very famous last words is Tu quoque fili, meaning You too, my boy. "Et tu, Brute?" is actually part of a line from the Shakespear play "Julius Caesar". The full ... read more

POTUS Tweets Like a Blog Commenter

It reminded me of some of the comments I have seen on this blog over the years, and especially some I have seen very recently. This is basically a deflection (Look! THEY did it too!). But, it is ... read more

Political Discourse, the Argumentum ad Misericordiam, and the Tu Quoque Fallacy

It is not a novel insight that the most recent inauguration has been contentious, nor is it a novel insight that political discourse has been so acrimonious that it is less a true discourse and more ... 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

Trump--Compared to What?

Tu quoque is a classical Latin term for you too.It is sometimes considered a logical fallacy: you do not defend your position, but instead point to someone else's that is worse—in the fashion of a ... read more

Tu Quoque

On Friday afternoon, the INDY published an open letter signed by 2,943 Duke alumnias of this writing, that number exceeds 3,200to fellow alum Stephen Miller, now President Trump's senior adviser and a ... read more

Argue Like a Black Belt

Another common logical fallacy is the tu quoque, which is Latin for “you too.” This fallacy is also known as the appeal to hypocrisy. It is when someone avoids criticism by turning it back ... read more