Logical Fallacy Referee

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UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT OFFENSE INSERTED AN AD HOMINEM INTO SOMEBODY'S NAME

WE HAVE AN EITHER-OR FALLACY ON THE FIELD DEFENSE FALSELY ASSUMED THERE WAS ONLY TWO POSITIONS IN THE ARGUMENT

ILLEGAL WHATABOUTISM ON THE PLAY ATTEMPTING TO DISCREDIT OPPONENT'S CLAIM BY CLAIMING SOMETHING ELSE IS WORSE WITHOUT ADDRESSING THE INITIAL CLAIM mematic.net

HASTY GENERALIZATION OFFENSE ATTEMPTED TO MAKE A CONCLUSION ABOUT THE WHOLE THROUGH A SINGLE EXAMPLE

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About

Logical Fallacy Ref is an image macro series featuring photographs of sports referees with captions calling out the use of logically invalid arguments used in online debate.

Origin

On July 11th, 2015, a gallery was uploaded to Imgur^[1] containing 32 image macros of sports referees calling out various logical fallacies, which credited film critic Glen Welch as the creator of the series. Within two weeks, the gallery received more than 230,000 views.

Logical Fallacy Ref

Precursor: Your Logical Fallacy Is

On September 24th, 2011, the website YourLogicalFallacyIs.com^[6] was launched, which features explanations of many formal and informal fallacies often used in discussions on the Internet.

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On July 12th, 2015, Redditor rtphokie submitted the Imgur gallery to the /r/AdviceAnimals^[3] subreddit, where it gathered upwards of 4,600 votes (88% upvoted) and 480 comments in the first two weeks. The following day, a Logical Fallacy Referee image about the "strawman" fallacy was reposted on 9gag.^[4] On July 15th, the political news site Dangerous Minds^[8] published an interview with Welch about the creation of the series. On July 16th, the "Fallacy Ref" Facebook^[7] page was launched, which highlights notable examples of the meme.