What is a rhetorical device that tries to sidetrack someone by bringing up a related but irrelevant topic?
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His name's Greg, I work with him. I told him once about a battery backup unit we were going to get for our computer room, he spent several minutes going on about electromagnetic fields.
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You can go on a tangent?
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I think you're talking about red herring arguments. http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/red-herring.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignoratio_elenchi (read down to the second section) http://www.fallacyfiles.org/redherrf.html
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smokescreen
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It's like where you say "I think that every American should have a firearm in their home because I'm a patriot."
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