Political Memes

Yeah, but if I know someone’s a nazi, I’ll just ask someone else.

Sure, it's a logical fallacy, but I don't believe this binary is wholly true. A moral failure in any area indicates a likelihood for moral failures elsewhere. This likelihood is not irrefutable evidence, but it is not in any way illogical, either. It's basic pattern recognition. If you murder once, there is an increased likelihood to murder again. If you do drugs once, there is an increased likelihood to do drugs again. This is statistically proven.

It's like a corrupted database. Sure, the other data may not be corrupted, but now that there's proven corruption how am I to know what other data is or is not corrupted? Easier to just restore from backup and move on (in this case your backup is anyone else who is not a fascist).

Of course, I'd probably take Ben Carson's advice on brain surgery regardless, but that's because he has undisputed experience in a high skilled field. If he'd been diagnosed with dementia, that does not provide irrefutable evidence against his advice, but I'd probably seek a another opinion. If my GP was fascist, I'd prefer to get recommendations from a different GP.

The world isn't logical. Knowledge of one topic is often applied to other topics.

If I had to hire a C++ programmer, and there were two candidates who were tied for the position except that one of them knew everything about the Great War, you can bet I'd hire him instead of the other. Not because I need anything at all related to the Great War, but it'd be nice if the person is able to relate the programming to something.

The Great War was an unforeseen consequence of many smaller locally logical events, almost like functions in code.

The programmer ought to be able to identify the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in the code, so that the entire system doesn't break down from killing one small insignificant process.

Its not "opinion" its "cultish loyalty and devotion"