- Moderator
- #581
It’s an informed opinion based on two things:Nope. They were not calls to violent action just because you say so. At this point, that is still just an opinion.
1. The response of the mob.
2. The lack of any attempt to moderate rhetoric or stop it once they began to attack the police and break into the Capitol.
What informs your opinion?
See the above response.This is premised on the assumption that everything else was a call for violent action. Just because he uttered the word “peaceful” one time does not automatically render the rest as non-rhetorical.
Saying that his saying the word “peaceful” once in a speech proves that the rest was a call to violent action is a logical fallacy.
That wasn’t my argument. The word peaceful was irrelevant in the larger context of the speech. You want to parse out select words to make a point, but you can’t because a speech is not just a collection of words, it’s an entire thing in itself designed to evoke specific emotions and responses (that applies to any speech).