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Moore-Coulter Postulate 3.0

I created a name for a typical fallacy that I see online in web boards. It is the Moore-Coulter Postulate, which in honesty is a derivative of the False Equivalence Fallacy. It is typically committed by right-wingers who compare differing magnitudes of opposing ideologies as equivalent.

The Postulate reads:

“Conservatives have a strong tendency to be unable to differentiate between absolute magnitudes of two politically opposing people/conventions/ideas and as a consequence, typically see such values as inconsequential in difference.”

An example would be a right-winger noting that Moore is “just as bad” as Coulter when it comes to blanket partisanship and vileness or that MSNBC is a “mirror image” of Fox News. Oddly enough, far left-wingers seem to be now making the same sort of fallacy regarding Obama being “just as bad” as George W. Bush.