Hi guys.
So first of all: surprisingly, this is not another comment about the topic title! Instead, it's this:
Isn't there a logical fallacy for those people who take a part of an analogy that may have come off as negative, and twist it so that the newly created point they formed has that selected part of the analogy, but means something completely different?
Original quote:
"lets unite as one group. Like NATO or the EU or even frickin ISIS"
Responses,:
-"So you want us to be terrorists now? Nope. No thanks."
-"you basically said we should act more like isis, and even if it was indirect, the point is still there for all to see."
ISIS was an example of a united group who, even though they cary out hanous actions and speak reprehensible words, are united as one. OP was making the (albeit ineffective example) that even the most evil of the evil are able to unite as one group, so why can't we? I'll agree with Burak though, that this was a "Definitely bad choice of words." I couldn't have said it better myself especially because though I know what it was trying to accomplish, it missed the mark both because it was ineffective, and because it will cause people to fixate and warp that like 5% of your otherwise valid though untactful point in that paragraph. Though I insist that there must be a fallacy for this picking apart one little piece of the message and warping it to create a new one, I recognise that it is a thing and a very common thing at that, so would not use this to communicate my message.
This was ineffective though because an evil agenda is not an indication of how well a group will band together. We band together to achieve a common goal, looking for those who wish to achieve the same goal and thus can help us or at least validate us. Whether you're raising money for a nonprofit, donation based children's hospital, or rounding up innocent people to lock in concentration camps, you're going to need help and you're going to want to find that help - and you're going to cooperate with the people helping you so long as it serves you and your agenda to do so.
Enough said about that. Now, on to the OP:
Mind chilling out with the name calling? It really doesn't spread the message of kindness and cooperation. There's a time and place for harsh words, yes, but a hasty generalization is not one of them. You should probably cut the attitude as well, because I'm not inspired. Like at all.
I'll layout kinda what you said, but with definitions.
Op wrote:The following is addressed to the blind community as a whole.
Dear mentally slow, socially awkward people with total vision loss who exhibit uncontrollable eye movements due to nystagmus:
we should (all) stop acting superior to one another, and cut the hostile, angry, and bitchy attitudes.
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