Sheridan: The Republican Party supports numerous policies that negatively
impact black people. They promote welfare rules that make it virtually impossible
for people of any color to get off welfare, and a disproportionate number
of black people are stuck in depressed areas and so have to go on welfare. They
support drug laws that have higher penalties for the drugs favored by black
drug users. Most importantly, they have consistently supported the inequities
in the legal system that allow those police and court officials who are
racist to pursue racist policies without let or hinderance. All-in-all, I can
only conclude that the Republican Party, despite it's protestations to the contrary,
is basically an anti-black party.
Heath: But don't you remember that
the Republican Party was founded in part as an anti-slavery party? Since all
the slaves were black, and opposing slavery carried enormous dangers back then,
it follows that the Republican party cannot be an anti-black party.
The Republican Party supports welfare rules that make it virtually impossible
for people of any color to get off welfare
A disproportionate number
of black people are forced on to welfare.
(The Republican Party supports
welfare rules that disproportionally hurt black people.) (deductive - direct
argument)
There are inequities
in the legal system that allow those police and court officials who are
racist to pursue racist policies without let or hinderance.
(This racism
disproportionally includes anti-black racism.)
The Republican Party supports
these inequities.
The Republican Party supports legal inequities that disproportionally
hurt black people. (deductive - direct argument)
The Republican Party supports
drug laws that have higher penalties for the drugs favored by black
drug users.
(There is no moral justification for so discriminating between
these types of drugs.)
The Republican Party (unjustifiably) supports
drug laws that disproportionally hurt black people. (deductive - direct
argument)
(The Republican Party supports welfare rules that disproportionally
hurt black people.)
The Republican Party supports legal inequities that disproportionally
hurt black people.
The Republican Party (unjustifiably) supports drug laws that disproportionally
hurt black people.
(No party would pursue three policies that unjustifiably
hurt a particular social group unless they were effectivly a party against that
group.)
The Republican Party is effectively an anti-black party. (explanation
- direct argument.)
The Republican Party was founded in part as an anti-slavery party.
All
the slaves were black.
Opposing slavery carried enormous dangers back when
the Republican Party was founded.
The Republican party cannot be an anti-black party.
(deductive - opposing argument.)
While Log's argument is perhaps less
than completely compelling, he commits no fallacy. Cabin however, commits the
genetic fallacy, since he confuses the intentions of the party's
founders with the actual achievements of the party's present leaders.
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