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Goomba fallacy

noun

Etymology

Named after a fictional species (Goomba) from Nintendo's Mario franchise. The term references an Internet meme depicting the fallacy using Goombas posted to Twitter by @supersylvie_ on January 29, 2024.

Definitions

  1. A logical fallacy that occurs when someone sees contradictory opinions expressed by…

    A logical fallacy that occurs when someone sees contradictory opinions expressed by members of a group and mistakenly believes that those people are being hypocritical, when in reality those contradictory opinions were expressed by separate individuals.

  2. Alternative letter-case form of Goomba fallacy.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Goomba fallacy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA