Tu quoque ( / tj uː ˈ k w oʊ k w iː / ; Latin for 'you also') is a discussion technique that intends to discredit the opponent's argument by attacking the opponent's own personal behavior and actions as being inconsistent with their argument, so that the opponent appears hypocritical . This specious reasoning is a special type of ad hominem attack. The Oxford English Dictionary cites John Cooke's 1614 stage play The Cittie Gallant as the earliest known use of the term in the English language.
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18-431: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Tu quoque The ( fallacious ) tu quoque argument follows the template (i.e. pattern): As a specific example, consider the following scenario where Person A and Person B just left a store. The example above was worded in a way to make it amenable to the template given above. However, in colloquial language,
24-481: Is wrong" or some other statement that is similar in spirit. Person A and/or Person B are also allowed to be groups of individuals (e.g. organizations, such as corporations, governments, or political parties) rather than individual people. For example, Persons A and B might be governments such as those of the United States and the former Soviet Union , which is the situation that led to the term " whataboutism " with
30-408: The tu quoque technique more often makes an appearance in more subtle and less explicit ways, such as in the following example in which Person B is driving a car with Person A as a passenger: Although neither Person A nor Person B explicitly state what X is, because of the colloquial nature of the conversation, it is nevertheless understood that statement X is something like: "Running stop signs
36-475: The " And you are lynching Negroes " argument. The tu quoque technique can also appear outside of conversations. For example, it is possible for someone who supports a certain Politician B, who recently did something wrong, to justify not changing their support to another politician by reasoning with themselves: In this example, Person B was "Politician B" while Person A was "other politicians." Whataboutism
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