Thank You Mike Rowe

Today is August 24, 2017, yesterday the social media was alive with a response Mike Rowe, a television and internet personality, posted the day before when he dealt with a troll who attempted to link him, those who support him, and Republicans in general, with the white supremacy movement. Mr. Rowe tore him apart in the most civil of ways demonstrating why Mike is such a popular personality (BTW, this is unsupported opinion).  You can see his response either on his Facebook page (22 August, “Off The Wall”), or in this article Washington Times, Aug 23, 2017, Mike Rowe rips 'smug' reader for white nationalist' insinuation attack on Republicans.

What Mr. Rowe points out is how logical fallacies play so heavily on the arguments made by the left or right as they condemn their political opposition.   As an example, he used a tweet from Neil deGrasse Tyson to illustrate this, Tyson said since scientists could accurately predict the solar eclipse they could accurately predict global warming.  The two events have absolutely no correlation, and therefore to say “if A is true, then B must be true” is a logical fallacy that serves only to confuse the issue.  It drives me crazy when I see so many people push this type of argument along as a meme, but I’ve learned, for the most part, to just “let it go.”