The Boys in the Boat
by Daniel James Brown

The Boys in the Boat: Fallacy 1 key example

Chapter 12
Explanation and Analysis—Transplanting Hate?:

In Chapter 12, the American Olympic Committee president Avery Brundage uses a fallacy when sharing his thoughts on why the Americans should not boycott the 1936 Olympics:

It was Brundage himself, however, who came up with perhaps the most twisted bit of logic to advance the antiboycott cause: "The sportsmen of this country will not tolerate the use of clean American sport as a vehicle to transplant Old World hatreds to the United States." The trouble—the "Old World hatreds"—in other words, came not from the Nazis but from the Jews and their allies who dared to speak out against what was happening in Germany.