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There is no rule saying that in order to legitimately criticize Lincoln one must first make an equal number of criticisms of unrelated subject matter about Jeff Davis.

Non-seq wasn't violating some neo-secessionist rule of argument (lol). He was refuting a poster's claim of non-bias, by pointing out no criticism of the Davis regime accompanied that of Lincoln's. A fairly uncomplicated chain of logic that even you would have difficulty disagreeing with.

IOW, it would seem you have squawked in latin prematurely.

A fairly uncomplicated chain of logic that even you would have difficulty disagreeing with.

Actually, he just wanted a chance to call me 'boy' again. He believes in those old sothron traditions.

"A fairly uncomplicated chain of logic that even you would have difficulty disagreeing with."

Not so.

Description of Ad Hominem Tu Quoque

This fallacy is committed when it is concluded that a person's claim is false because 1) it is inconsistent with something else a person has said or 2) what a person says is inconsistent with her actions. This type of "argument" has the following form:

Person A makes claim X.
Person B asserts that A's actions or past claims are inconsistent with the truth of claim X.
Therefore X is false.
The fact that a person makes inconsistent claims does not make any particular claim he makes false (although of any pair of inconsistent claims only one can be true - but both can be false). Also, the fact that a person's claims are not consistent with his actions might indicate that the person is a hypocrite but this does not prove his claims are false.

So, it would seem that Non continues to engage in boring, juvenile logical fallacy shtick, thus the name 'boy'.

He was refuting a poster's claim of non-bias, by pointing out no criticism of the Davis regime accompanied that of Lincoln's.

...which again leads directly to my point. What rule says that every criticism of Abe Lincoln must be accompanied by a criticism of Jeff Davis no matter how unrelated Davis may be to the conversation? That sort of nonsensical belief is the substance from which tu quoques are born.