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Do they really care about us? (Blog Post #1)

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"This film is not degrading to ANY one RACE, but pictorializes the injustices to ALL MANKIND" starts Michael Jackson's riveting and influential,  They Don't Really Care About Us (1995). In 1995, "King of Pop" Michael Jackson released his first album in four years. Michaels Jackson's, HIStory: Past, Present and Future Part 1  shared two CD's: The first containing old music and the second containing a compilation of new songs, where we find  They Don't Really Care About Us. Jackson's main focus in the album was to focus on the many allegations that labeled him as a child molester, as well as those about his skin abnormality. This album is a compilation spread across multiple genres and is considered one of Jackson's most vulnerable works. Though it wasn't as famous as his other songs,  They Don't Really Care About Us was still featured in the top 10 songs of most countries and had two different music videos. Though

Logical Fallacies: Introduction

"And maybe that is what we have, in fact, become. For Donald Trump’s refusal to condemn the murderous white supremacists in Charlottesville finally confirms what has become increasingly obvious: The current president of the United States isn’t a real American." -Paul Krugman I n anti-trump article titled, "When the President is Un-American", Paul Krugman makes many remarks against trump, his actions, and views in efforts to show how unconnected he is to the American people. When analyzing the manner in which Trump addressed the violent, bigoted acts that occurred in Charlottesville more recently, he made the remark stated above. Trump failed, in his address, to describe the white-supremacist status of the man who ran his car into the protestors. Logical fallacy can be described simply as an error in logic/reasoning, especially while making a claim or argument. It is logical fallacy to base such a minuscule wrongdoing to credit such a loaded and intricate claim/arg