The author may be a right-wing fellow. Nonetheless, the data he exposes are taken from official Mozilla docs.

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It’s still just ad hominem.

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Ad hominem applies to arguments. The source of an argument does not affect the soundness of that argument.

But it’s not a fallacy to question an overarching narrative based on the source. If a person keeps selectively choosing facts and twisting words to forward a specific narrative, it’s not fallacious to view what that person says with skepticism.

Edit: Typo. Also changed “valid” to “sound”.

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ad hominem: in a way that is directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining.

If you think his narrative is skewed and based on selectively chosen facts and twisted words, you could correct that.

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And other people are doing that in the comments. I addressed your point about ad-hominem specifically. So your response is kinda irrelevant to what I wrote.

People are questioning the narrative the author is painting based on their motivations. That’s different to ad-hominem.

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Saying that someone leans right is considered an attack on their character now?

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