Hannah Garrett

Mrs. Calfee

English 3 CP

27 March 2017

Logical Fallacy

The world around us today is full of logical fallacies. Every where you look in

politicians, political movements, or anything in general it is there. This is something we cannot

avoid, but can detect if we look close enough. In the Womens March the logical fallacy false

dilemma is demonstrated in Womens March Highlights as Huge Crowds Protest Trump: Were

Not Going Away; this is significant because we can see uses of logical fallacies in even the

most recent things.

The Womens March is a march that took place all around the world to help stand up for

womens rights. This march took place the day after Trump got elected to go into office. One

main arguments they had is that if you support Trump you dont support womens rights. The

women that took place in this believe that Trump is going to take away their rights which is

shown even in the title of the article of a The New York Times which says, Womens March

Highlights as Huge Crowds Protest Trump: Were Not Going Away (Hartocollis, Alcindor).

Them believing if you vote for Trump then you are against women is a logical fallacy called

false dilemma. False dilemma is when someone claims something is true because the other claim

is false which is what they are doing. The claim that if you support Trump you dont support

womens rights is a false dilemma because this isnt always true in the slightest. Many people

support Trump due to his finical stability and his lack in political background. Saying this
statement makes their movement strong for those who hate Trump and very unappealing and

appalling to those who dont. This can help them gain supporters, but also lose them which is

something they dont want.

In conclusion the Womens March is a perfect example of a logical fallacy and displays

the use of false dilemma fiercely. This is important to realize because this happens around us all

the time and sometimes we never notice. The more we notice these fallacies the better we can

determine how true a statement is and what it is trying to accomplish. This can help us use them

better in the future or try to eliminate them completely.

 Work Cited

Alcindor, Anemona Hartocollis and Yamiche. "Women's March Highlights as Huge Crowds

Protest Trump: 'We're Not Going Away'." The New York Times. The New York Times, 21

Jan. 2017. Web. 27 Mar. 2017.