"Beef is not vegan, and all vegans realize this." "Many vegans think it is vegan." "No true vegan would think that, therefore, they aren't vegans." No True S

"Beef is not vegan, and all vegans realize this." "Many vegans think it is vegan." "No true vegan would think that, therefore, they aren't vegans." No True Scotsman is about a particular form of reasoning, not any sentence that includes the word "true". It's a form of ad-hoc rationalization where someone rejects counterexamples out of hand. ramraj07 wasn't really making a generalization, and the rejection of the "counterexample" was neither ad-hoc nor unjustified. Many people outside the U.S. have always viewed the American "left" as right-wing, and this is justified because American politics actually are right-wing compared to much of the world.