Identify Any Fallacies in the Following Passage Either by Naming

question 35

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.
Yeah, sure the Los Angeles district attorney believes that O. J. Simpson got a fair trial. But before you sign on to something like that, you might notice that O. J. is a black man and that the Los Angeles district attorney is a white man. That tells you all you need to know about his opinion of fair trials.

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Definitions:

Date Of Record

The date of record is the specific date set by a company on which the shareholders must be on the company's books in order to receive a declared dividend.

Cash Dividend

The allocation of earnings in cash form by a company to its stockholders.

Retained Earnings Deficit

A negative balance in retained earnings, indicating that a company has more accumulated losses over time than accumulated profits.

Debit Balance

A situation where the total debits in an account exceed the total credits, indicating an excess of expenses or assets over income or liabilities.