False analogy. The word currently clearly shows that this is a temporary thing and limited to this specific situation.  A more fitting analogy would be: What dtewi said is completely useless.  The sentence is vague and shows little respect for dtewi.

Alright then.  What dtewi said is completely useless.  Would that lead you to infer that dtewi never posts useful information?

Well, twas a bad example as well because you have a post right there you're clearly refering to.  However, had there not been any post of dtewi's there, one could assume that you're trying to say that you must disregard what dtewi says because whatever he says is completely useless.  My point is that the way you said what you said portrayed indians in a very negative and ignorant light as if they were blaming everything on the Europeans for completely bogus reasons.  You even say they blamed Europeans for decreased game as if it's a ludicrous claim when they had every right to blame them for it.

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Ignoratio elenchi (also known as irrelevant conclusion or irrelevant thesis) is the formal fallacy of presenting an argument that may in itself be valid, but doesn't address the issue in question. "Ignoratio elenchi" can be roughly translated by ignorance of refutation, that is, ignorance of what a refutation is; "elenchi" is from the Greek έλεγχος, meaning an argument of disproof or refutation.

1) You got the point.

2) You're trying to distract from the real argument.

3) If a scholarly US History book uses the term Indian to refer to these people, I think it's an acceptable term.

 I grew up in Texas and for the most part we dont get real snow at least in the east. They got plenty out west and in the panhandel but its like a whole differnt state over there the accents are even different. It might snow once or twice a year and stick about every five years in north east Texas. If it even hints at snowing all the Schools close down cause thaty dont want to run the buses. I moved to Idaho a few years ago and driving on sleet and black ice like we get at home is a lot different than driving on the snowpack we get up here. I now understand why the Eskimos have so many different words for snow as there are so many different types of snow. We never got anything but wet snow at home. 

 If youve ever seen The Outlaw Josey Whales an old Clint Eastwood movie it does a better job than most of showing how some parts of Texas actually look. One of the Few movies I've seen that shows East Texas full of pine trees.

I'm sorry, but you missed the point long ago.

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I was actually not being genuine from the moment I first responded to Parokki. The last sentence of that post should have been a dead give away. You still took the bait... hook, line, and sinker.

the thread must have gone way off course... but is this movie for real?