Argumentum ad ignorantiam on display at Anthony Bradley’s “reformed” weblog. This logical fallacy consists in argument to the effect that something must be true simply because it hasn’t been proved false, i.e. that Kinism is indistinguishable from the beliefs held by the Ku Klux Klan. We come across this “deposit” of knowledge not through direct interface with Kinists, but through a link to this site from one of his “articles”. I must be out of the loop, since this article has been there for quite a while. Over a year in fact. I only come across it by virtue of a fan of Anthony’s clicking the link to the -GASP!!- shocking evidence.
To further manipulate the suggestibility of his typical reader, he presents us with an inglorious picture of menacing looking KKK members in full regalia. But the connection between Kinism and KKK views is that which is to be proved, as they say in forensics. Furthermore, the attempt actually being made here is your typical guilt by association ploy in which it is hoped that the misdeeds of the KKK, whatever they may have been, are associated with Kinism through the specious comparison above. Using this tactic, Kinism becomes guilty of the sins of the KKK. Thus, it is Quod Erat Demonstrandum to the mental giants that frequent his shuck and jive website.
