# Ad Hominem Attack Question Pack: Critical Thinking, Comic, Comprehension **Price:** $0.00 AUD **Seller:** TeachBuySell Seller **Year Levels:** noYearLevel **Subjects:** english ## Description (seller-submitted) He documented the Soviet Gulag with evidence from over 200 survivors. The Soviet government's response was not to argue with any of it. The Ad Hominem Attack is when someone responds to an argument by attacking the person making it rather than dealing with what they actually said. It doesn't disprove anything. The argument is still there, sitting unanswered. But if it works, nobody notices. You hear it everywhere: "Your idea is stupid and so are you." "Why would I take advice from someone like that?" "Of course he'd say that - he's just bitter." None of those are responses to the argument. They're attempts to make you forget there was one. This free expansion pack teaches you to ask "what's actually wrong with it?" - through a true historical story, real-life examples, and activities that feel nothing like homework. It's the companion to the full Ad Hominem Attack Activity Pack and a free preview of the upcoming book, 24 Fallacies and the Historical Disasters That Followed. ⭐ Rated 5.0 by people who now win arguments THE STORY INSIDE Alexander Solzhenitsyn was a Russian writer who had survived the Soviet Gulag - a vast network of forced labour camps where the Soviet government sent people it considered enemies. Millions were sent. Many died there. In 1973, Solzhenitsyn published *The Gulag Archipelago* - a detailed account of the labour camps built from his own experience and interviews with over 200 survivors. The evidence was overwhelming. The Soviet government's response was not to argue with any of it. They called Solzhenitsyn mentally unstable, a liar, a troublemaker, and a traitor. He was arrested and expelled from the country in 1974. Some media in the West - in the US and UK - joined in, calling him an extremist and a Cold War propaganda tool. They didn't engage with his evidence. They just attacked him. History proved Solzhenitsyn right. The camps were real. The deaths were real. The attacks on the man were a way of avoiding the truth for as long as possibl… [truncated] ## Learning Needs growthMindset, personalDevelopment, socialSkills --- View on TeachBuySell: https://teachbuysell.com.au/l/699e100f-9b8f-4c6a-a0f7-6db6b62dfe78 Marketplace: https://teachbuysell.com.au