# Trolls R Us Resurrections (Part 1)

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**Created:** [September 11, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections-part-1/950518 "2021-09-11T17:26:17Z")\
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> [@74westy](#):
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> The spelling error is one thing but the argument it was intended to refute wasn’t even close to an ad hominem.

Ad Hominem means “attacking the person, not the argument”.

> [@Fair tax act](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fair-tax-act/978711/19):
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> This proposed tax is not a progressive system. If it was, the Republicans wouldn’t be proposing it.

Little\_Nemo is saying, “It can’t be what they say because EVIL PEOPLE”. That’s attacking the people making the argument, not the argument i.e. Ad Hominem.

But I used the wrong word, so fair, you got me.

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