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

So I don't have to

This is part of a broader trend of YOU taking one-off statements and then broadening them or expanding them to encompass everything I've said. And it's THE EXACT SAME TACTIC Trump employs when he says "They're eating the cats! They are eating the dogs!" You are taking one story of one person eating a dog and expanding that to the entire Haitian immigrant population.

Hym "And in that post I was talking specifically about working hard (even though Jordan Peterson says that writing and thinking are hard work and I do both at the highest conceivable level). I said I don't like doing it, there, go forth! Do things so I don't have to! That in no way means ignore me when I say I expect to be credited and paid AND I told people (explicitly) not do anything I am not actively doing or haven't done. What I told YOU to do... Was substantiate my claim about the weaponized schizophrenia (which you did) and instead you goaded me into revealing my name (which I did in the form of a etymology riddle) and then you made it worse existing people to do it deliberately... And then the AI instruction manual worked... And then someone else did the weaponized schizophrenia that YOU WERE DOING TO ME... To someone else... They DID THE THING I SAID THEY WERE GOING TO DO... And then Suchir Balaji blew the whistle on the fact that the AI runs on a theory that was stolen and belongs to the guy you are doing that to... So... I also told you to GET OVER HERE!!! You did the opposite of that."

by Hym Iam March 28, 2025

Pretending I don't

Pretending I do so you can keep pretending I don't.

Hym "Pretending I don't already have it isn't going to save you."

by Hym Iam June 12, 2025

No I don't

I don't want a relationship. I'm not blaming all of my problems on women. I'm pretty sure I am pretty explicit about is causing the. Women likely don't like the things I've said and are using being raped by men who are not me (because I haven't raped anyone) as a pretext to prevent me from getting justice for my thing. But that's only until people start doing to them what they are doing to me and then apparently they have a breakdown on their YouTube channel and cry about it. And then they are at the mercy of the people who are trying to split the baby on the issue and that didn't work out all that well for the guy who killed your senators or the guy who tried to shoot Trump in the head. So, no. You are to blame for not fucking me because you are selecting how you are selecting and if you've have had causal sex then I don't need to have a relationship.

Hym "So no I don't do that. You are to blame in direct proportion to whatever extent you can be blamed which is A NON-ZERO SUM. You are trying to condition our relationship to me in a manner that renders me either a fuck-boy or a relationship guy and I refuse to be one of those things. And that's why the men aren't dating anyone. You have a little internal caste system. They aren't willing to be second class citizens. You are a volatile commodity that prices itself arbitrarily."

by Hym Iam June 28, 2025

No I don't need to learn anything

I haven't trained my self to do anything.

Hym "And no I don't need to learn anything. My way or death."

by Hym Iam July 14, 2025

umm i uhh. i don't know. i forgot. umm wait

i kinda forgot what to put... umm its something funny but uhh... hm. this is tricky. i know it but its kinda hard.. uhm... uhh.

uhh. i forgot the example. uhh i think it was guy1 saying something.. well, its probably nothing... but like umm i uhh. i don't know. i forgot. umm wait

by ligmasigma August 27, 2025

So I don't have to blame myself

Which is exactly what they are doing. Blaming me so that they don't have to blame themselves.

Hym "No. I work to fill a need. I do need to work just because the rest of you have to. This is a pathetic attempt as avoiding the resent you are going to experience when you have to continue to work and I do not. That's why I'm getting harassed at work. The want me to work harder and I do have to just work harder at you behest. You're being childish an you need to answer me in the manner I instructed. Text. Video. Or live on the Majority Report. And you need to talk about what is happening to me. If you would have done it in the first place you would have more kids and you'll have one fewer if you don't. Oh? Is it credible this time? But not 10 years ago? 'Blame Hym so I don't have to blame myself.' "

by Hym Iam October 19, 2025