Unsophisticated reasoning
Ginny Robinson's column yesterday lacked the same "validity of assertion" she said the Love is Love campaign missed. Additionally, she makes groundless assumptions about the University community. Love is Love may have made a claim based on emotional appeal (what else would you expect from a campaign about love on Valentine's Day weekend, by the way?), but Robinson also committed a logical fallacy: anecdotal evidence. She relies on one female student's response to why she was wearing the shirt. Well, I informed both a peer and a professor about the meaning of the campaign without hesitation and also witnessed a friend inform a Charlottesville local. So, if we are only comparing anecdotes, Love is Love wins.