Word: hominem
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...part of Ali to see grey has two unfortunate consequences for his group, the BSA: it loses the sympathy of all those who still have faith in constructive, level-headed discussion, and it forces Ali to misrepresent comments (or to substitute counter-arguments with a series of ad hominem attacks) in order to dispense with opposing viewpoints...
...China to be snubbed. A week after his chilly sojourn in Beijing, Patten was stood up by a retired Chinese official who abruptly bowed out of a long- standing luncheon appointment at Government House. Meanwhile, pro-Beijing newspapers in the colony kept up their fusillade of ad hominem attacks on Patten, joined even by moderate members of Hong Kong's skittish business community...
Brown's work descends to a new low in attack commercials, which means that they could damage his candidate, George Bush, even more than Clinton. Many voters, already sour about ad hominem assaults, will think that Bush's agents produced the ad. The G.O.P. campaign will doubtless engage in its own tough tactics, but it wants to calibrate its messages. Bush denounced Brown's work as "the kind of sleaze that diminishes the political process." The Bush- Quayle campaign tried to hit Brown's operation in the pocketbook last month by obtaining from the Federal Election Commission the names...
...opposition to homosexuality was motivated by hatred. They affirm and reaffirm that "We have no coercive capabilities; we wouldn't use them if we did." They make arguments--weak arguments, we think, but arguments nonetheless. To dismiss this issue as mere gay-bashing is simply unfair. The virulent ad hominem attacks proferred after the issue's publication, while understandable, were entirely unwarranted...
...answer this ad hominem attack on me by asking Cloud to explain how he could have misunderstood my positions and actions, when I clearly explained them to him twice, and when I have also publicly promulgated them to the Harvard community...