Council Member Jen Ruggles Community Meeting

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Originally posted by HiloPuna
If sovereignty activists wish to make progress, or wish to foster an open dialogue about Hawaiian history, their sources and experts must stand up to scrutiny.

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This is a textbook case of the Ad Hominem logical fallacy. "argumentum ad hominem is a fallacious argumentative strategy whereby genuine discussion of the topic at hand is avoided by instead attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, or persons associated with the argument, rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

Ruggles (and Sai) did not say that De Zayas is a wonderful human being. I'd love to hear a rebuttal that includes things like: "The treaty of 18xx shows that your argument is flawed".