Amitabh Bachchan recently proposed that all of us who want to disassociate ourselves from the caste issue, must write “Indian” on the census form when it asks us what our caste is. For this, there were many people who lambasted him. Here is one of the comments found on the net:<\/p>\n
“I dont care what amitabh has to say. he is just an ordinary person….amitabh was silent like the rest of bollywood when raj thackeray and his gundas were attacking north indians….so i consider people who look up to them as stupid people.<\/strong>“<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Spotted the fallacy?<\/p>\n
This is a classic ad hominem<\/em> argument which literally means “To the man.” It means you attack the person instead of the issue they’re talking about. By lambasting Amitabh Bachchan, this guy is trying to distract us from the real issue, namely that we should ignore caste distinctions and unite under one umbrella – Indian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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