{"id":3982,"date":"2013-01-22T07:27:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T12:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3982"},"modified":"2013-01-22T07:27:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T12:27:32","slug":"what-would-martin-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3982","title":{"rendered":"What would Martin do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 341px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mlive.com\/kzgazette_impact\/photo\/king-mlk-martin-luther-king-statute-6cbae0c5579799c8.jpg\" width=\"341\" height=\"512\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fig.1, Prominent gun advocate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You have the argumentum\u00c2\u00a0ad Hiterlum, whereby any proposition <em>p<\/em> consistent with Hitler&#8217;s beliefs <em>b<\/em> or actions <em>a<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0is ipso facto wrong.\u00c2\u00a0 Now you have the <em>ad regem<\/em> (still working on the name), where any proposition <em>p<\/em> consistent with the beliefs <em>b<\/em> or actions <em>a<\/em> of Martin Luther King, Jr. is ipso facto correct.<\/p>\n<p>By way of Think Progress, and last night&#8217;s Daily Show, we have <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2013\/01\/11\/1435261\/pro-gun-advocate-arming-black-people-would-have-prevented-slavery\/\">an example<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WARD: I think Martin Luther King, Jr. would agree with me if he were alive today that <strong>if African Americans had been given the right to keep and bear arms from day one of the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s founding, perhaps slavery might not have been a chapter in our history.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This obviously suffers from terminal factual problems, but so powerful is the thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. that no one bothers to check what he believed any more.\u00c2\u00a0 He&#8217;s good, therefore he supports any view that&#8217;s good.\u00c2\u00a0 Hitler is bad, therefore he supports any view that&#8217;s bad, like gun control (which he didn&#8217;t support, actually).\u00c2\u00a0 But thus the fallacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have the argumentum\u00c2\u00a0ad Hiterlum, whereby any proposition p consistent with Hitler&#8217;s beliefs b or actions a\u00c2\u00a0is ipso facto wrong.\u00c2\u00a0 Now you have the ad regem (still working on the name), where any proposition p consistent with the beliefs b or actions a of Martin Luther King, Jr. is ipso facto correct. By way of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3982\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What would Martin do?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[743,913,1571,1573,176,1562,1572],"class_list":["post-3982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-ad-hitlerum","tag-argumentum-ad-hitlerum","tag-argumentum-ad-regem","tag-jr-do","tag-martin-luther-king","tag-nra","tag-what-would-martin-luther-king"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3984,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982\/revisions\/3984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}