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		namaria 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New York claims a small victory in 'forever war on... My argument was that one of the most American things ever (hip hop) is actually rooted in NY. The rest is a response to 'hip hop heads don't listen to female artists' so I mentioned a bunch of heavyweights. This can degenerate into 'no real scotsman' so whatever. There is today a whole lot of pop artists that use hip hop aesthetics, but as usual the real stuff is very much underground.

tialaramex 7 months ago [–]

The fallacy is actually named "No True Scotsman" for whatever that's worth.

namaria 7 months ago | [–]

C'mon really? In the Book of Fallacies they used the other word? Talk about pedantism.

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