Subj : Re: Tone and Attitude here
To : Tim Schattkowsky
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Fri Feb 28 2025 05:30 pm
Re: Re: Tone and Attitude here
By: Tim Schattkowsky to Rob Swindell on Fri Feb 28 2025 07:17 pm
> RS> That's an offensive question, but it's not an accusation (it's a US
> RS> trope you may not be familiar with?):
> RS>
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ManyQuestionsFallacy
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> For me it was a clear implication that he did it before.
You might have to be an American of a certain age to be familiar with that saying, but it does not in fact imply that the subject of the question has ever in beat their wife (if they even have a wife). It's used as a purposefully obviously-loaded response to a less-obvious loaded question.
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Rob Swindell
FTSC Standing Member and stand-in Election Coordinator