Identify Any Fallacies in the Following Passage Either by Naming

question 176

Short Answer

Identify any fallacies in the following passage either by naming them or, where they seem not to conform to any of the patterns described in the text, by giving a brief explanation of why the fallacious reasoning is irrelevant to the point at issue.
"People in Hegins, Pennsylvania, hold an annual pigeon shoot in order to control the pigeon population and to raise money for the town. This year, the pigeon shoot was disrupted by animal rights activists who tried to release the pigeons from their cages. I can't help but think these animal rights activists are the same people who believe in controlling the human population through the use of abortion. Yet, they recoil at a similar means of controlling pigeons. What rank hypocrisy."
-Rush Limbaugh

Understand the influence of peer groups and schooling on children in the 1920s.

Recognize the impact of immigration policies and quotas in the 1920s on societal demographics.

Grasp the social and economic repercussions of suburban expansion in the 1920s.

Comprehend the ideology and influence of the Ku Klux Klan and other nativist groups during the 1920s.

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