I like this idea. I have a hard time listening to political speakers because of all the obvious (to me...a student of such things) fallacies and methods of the Dark Arts.
A couple of suggestions:
Who are the target of these sorts of videos? If it’s “fallacy noobs”, I suggest shorter videos. You could cut the one up, present the question at hand as text, and then present just enough of the video clip to get the speakers context. Personally, I almost stopped watching before we got to your first noted example nearly 2 minutes in to the video.
If the target is “fallacy noobs”, and you’re going to use political sources, I’d probably mix up examples from different political parties. Too many people will just shut down if they think you’re attacking their political party.
Seconded and extended: it’s going to need to be made very, very clear that there’s no political slant at work. I’d even recommend going completely sans political subject matter for a little while; poke a few holes in some pundit’s argument and you’ll be assumed to have an ironclad agenda to promote the opposite (and probably also bad) position.
I like this idea. I have a hard time listening to political speakers because of all the obvious (to me...a student of such things) fallacies and methods of the Dark Arts.
A couple of suggestions:
Who are the target of these sorts of videos? If it’s “fallacy noobs”, I suggest shorter videos. You could cut the one up, present the question at hand as text, and then present just enough of the video clip to get the speakers context. Personally, I almost stopped watching before we got to your first noted example nearly 2 minutes in to the video.
If the target is “fallacy noobs”, and you’re going to use political sources, I’d probably mix up examples from different political parties. Too many people will just shut down if they think you’re attacking their political party.
Seconded and extended: it’s going to need to be made very, very clear that there’s no political slant at work. I’d even recommend going completely sans political subject matter for a little while; poke a few holes in some pundit’s argument and you’ll be assumed to have an ironclad agenda to promote the opposite (and probably also bad) position.