Exposing Deceptive Media Tactics through Media Literacy Education
Crimes Against Logic: A Segment that i’ll be doing from time to time on the Val Leventhal Radio Show on Sundays. The concept goes like this. I’ll find someone in the media who is using a fallacious argument. We’ll find out what logical errors they are committing and we’ll explain how their argument is committing…
This Meme is suggesting that someone is hating the entire white race on the actions of just 1.6%. It sites the U.S. Census as it’s source for the percentage of the population who were slave owners. The trick with this type of meme is the alleged source citation at the bottom of the meme “US…
the “Fallacy of Relative Privation” or the “Not as bad as Fallacy” that’s presented in this Disclose.Tv meme. Which is a facebook page that is a good stomping ground for teaching critical thinking. they have fallacies galore when presenting arguments about Aliens and UFO’s and what not. I offered the singular rape versus the gang…
“I would love the media, there to be a month without polls. What is the value of these polls? If I am making a decision about a candidate, I want to weigh their record.” “Do I care what my neighbor thinks or the person next to me? I want to make an independent decision.” —…
The Echo Chamber Effect What David Byrne says is true but this is not limited to Trump Supporters. By describing the “echo chamber” effect with Trump supporters this in itself may reinforce the echo chamber created by non trump supporters. One may commit to the error that this phenomena is limited to Trump supporters or…
This meme is being pushed around as a rebuttal to the latest criticism from Jada Pinkett Smith of the lack of Black Actresses/Actors being nominated for Oscar Awards in 2016. With out even running the numbers or investigating the premises of this meme A Critical Thinking look at how this meme frames it’s argument exposes…
Crystal Wright from Conservative Black Chick .com Uses Statistical Trickery in order to play to false stereotypes and fears many Americans have of Black people. I will refute and expose the tactics so if you all encounter this you will know how to handle it. But first lets talk about Black conservatives who intentionally do…
I’m calling B.S. on the prevailing popular arguments from both political wings on guns. A common right wing argument is that more guns and less restrictive gun laws has a correlation with less crime and gun violence. A common Left wing argument is less guns and more restrictive gun laws has a correlation with less…
image from theblacklist This should challenge some Media and Racial Conspiracy theorists. Here are two arguments i come across quite often. One is that the media’s coverage of unarmed black people being killed by Police or Vigilante’s is part of some greater scheme to exploit fake racial conflict to achieve some greater evil. This same…
Meme Busting: One of the reasons Racism survives is because good honest people in America do not have good thinking and reasoning abilities. Their lack of Critical thinking skills is why bad arguments can be presented to them and they accept it because they think it is reasonable and sound logic. I’m about to post…
