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Post #516223

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Bingowings
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Who is Ignoring You, and Who are You Ignoring? (was: Who is Ignoring You? (was: Hello all, I'm back!))
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Date created
22-Jul-2011, 10:30 AM

twooffour said:

Seeing as how this isn't a serious socio-political discussion here, allow me to ask:
Where did the name for the "no true Scotsman" fallacy come from? Was it just random, some anectode, or an sense of pride ascribed to or frequent among Scotsmen?

I can count the times a Scot has said something like that, close enough for me to hear, with the fingers of one hand.

I've probably heard other people say it more, indeed I've heard more people say variations of, "no true homosexual would..." etc

But it tends to pass largely IGNORED around here.