Fallacies from Churchill's speech "Our Duty in India" March 18, 1931:
"I am against this surrender to Gandhi. I am against these conversations and agreements between Lord Irwin and Mr. Gandhi."
This is the same fallacy as Homer Simpson makes in chapter 14. Here Churchill implies that the conversations are equal to surrender. It's a false comparison.
"You will never be able to come to terms with Gandhi."
Seriously Churchill? Let's not be so ridiculous. This fallacy is completely reductio ad absurdum.
"Why should these unpractised, unproved, unrepresentative, self-chosen groups of Indian politicians disdain the immense possibilities offered within the limits of the Statutory Commission's report, and demand an immediate setting up of a United States of India, with themselves in control, and the British army at their orders?"
Hasty generalization, how does he know that all Indian politicians are unpractised, unproved, and and unrepresentative?
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