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I see this periodically when someone is arguing about a group of people, such as defending a certain group of individuals, or even just trying to explain why something is the way it is. They are accused of being "one of them", or being "with them" to try and invalidate their argument.

Is there a name for this specific type of fallacy, other than an ad-hominem?

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    See Wikipedia: Association fallacy (Guilt by association as an ad hominem fallacy).
    – Mick
    Commented Nov 25, 2016 at 6:09
  • @Mick: Care to post that as an answer?
    – ruakh
    Commented Nov 26, 2016 at 4:03

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I believe these types of fallacies can also be called Association Fallacies or guilt by association.

"An association fallacy is an informal inductive fallacy which asserts, by irrelevant association that qualities of one thing are inherently qualities of another." -Wikipedia

For further reading see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy#Guilt_by_association_as_an_ad_hominem_fallacy

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/10/Ad-Hominem-Guilt-by-Association

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