Displacing blame onto a side issue can be exposed as evasion by analogy

Evidence

The root cause of gun violence, he claimed, resides in mental illness. Senator Schumer of New York likened LaPierre’s displaced causal attribution to analyzing the causes of lung cancer without talking about cigarettes. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1252

Categorization

• XREF: Links to vault claims about how ordinary people rationalize supporting Islamophobic policy - displacement of causal attribution is a mechanism of moral disengagement. — connects to: Dismissing causal analysis as disrespect masks refusal to argue — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1426
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1252