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Ergo decedo, Latin for "therefore I leave" or "then I go off", also known as the “traitorous critic fallacy”, is a bad faith rhetorical fallacy that involves responding to a critique by implying that the critic is motivated by undisclosed favorability to a group, rather than responding to the criticism itself.
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- If you love country so much, why don’t you go live there?
- If you hate country so much, why don’t you leave?
This fallacy completely ignores the substance of the claim they are responding to, and implies that no one can criticize their own country or praise any other country.