But I Don't Know What This Term Means Fallacy

An inverted strawman where the person denies the applicability of a term by claiming ignorance of its meaning. The classic form: someone accused of racism says "you can't call me racist because I don't even know what racism means." The move uses claimed ignorance as a shield—if I don't know the term, the term can't apply to me. The fallacy lies in treating ignorance as innocence, not knowing as not being. But actions have meanings regardless of the actor's vocabulary. Not knowing what racism means doesn't mean your actions aren't racist; it just means you're ignorant, not innocent.

But I Don't Know What This Term Means Fallacy "I pointed out his pattern of discriminatory comments. Response: 'I don't even know what racism means, so you can't call me racist!' That's But I Don't Know What This Term Means Fallacy—using ignorance as a defense. Not knowing the word doesn't mean the behavior isn't real. Ignorance isn't innocence; it's just ignorance."

by Dumu The Void March 3, 2026

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This is not an experiment to prove what weaponized schizophrenia does

Give me a break. Anyone stupid enough to buy into that as an explanation needs to be murdered immediately.

Hym "This is not an experiment to prove what weaponized schizophrenia does. This is just another false pretense you're using to both participate in it and perpetuate it. And even if it was, if you're not including the 16 year old school shooter who randomly developed a rare form of schizophrenia 5 years before schizophrenia generally develops... Then you're omitting data so you can manufacture the outcome you want. Which is, in explicit terms, 'I get everything stolen from me and fail to stop people from harassing me I perpetuity and then I work a job I hate until I die while you act like a smug asshole because you think you deserve to have a better life than me or that I should have to do the things you do.' So, yes. You doing this and your kids doing it is getting them shot. I'm definitely glad it's happening now. And I hope you DON'T believe me, keep getting your own kids killed, and then tell yourself whatever it is you tell yourself as other people's kids die. It's what you want ME to do AND you think we should have to do the same things. So there! We're doing it! You're getting what you want!"

by Hym Iam July 20, 2025

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