You Too Fallacy Question Pack - Free Download

When the Soviet government imprisoned Andrei Sakharov for speaking out for peace and human rights, they didn't defend what they'd done. They pointed at America. "You do bad things too." And the world started arguing about America instead of asking why Sakharov was in exile.

The deflection worked perfectly. Nobody had to explain the censorship. Nobody had to justify the exile. The subject changed, and Sakharov kept suffering under house arrest - for seven years - while the argument went elsewhere.

That's the You Too Fallacy: deflecting criticism by pointing the finger straight back - "well, YOU do it too!" - so the original problem never gets dealt with. Your kids run this play every week. Homework. Chores. In every "yeah, but Jake didn't do his either" they'll ever be handed. This free Question Pack teaches them to catch it.

What's in the free Question Pack:

• Discussion and research questions that get kids arguing about the Andrei Sakharov story - the productive kind of arguing
• A guided walk through how a superpower answered every criticism with "you do it too!" - and kept the world looking the other way while it silenced its own people
• An answer sheet, so you can run it at the dinner table or in a classroom with zero prep

The deal, stated plainly

We teach people to spot manipulation, so it would be a bit rich to hide ours. This pack is free because it's the best advertisement we have. You hand over your email, we send the download, and every so often we'll email you about new comics, book and our card game. Unsubscribe the moment we get boring. 

One email. Check your spam folder - our goodies have a talent for landing there. 

What the free pack doesn't include

The fully illustrated Andrei Sakharov story. The Duchess & Bruno comic. The Spot-the-Fallacy hunt through real ads and headlines. The Code Breaker, the Draw Your Own Comic page, and the hidden Gizmo kids go feral trying to find.

All of that lives in the You Too Fallacy Activity Pack - a 20-page printed booklet, rated 5.0 by teachers and parents on Etsy and TPT. 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "My kids absolutely adore the characters and story! It reminds us of horrible histories. I haven't found anything like this pack before." - Sandra

It's one of 24. Every pack takes one fallacy, one historical disaster and one comic - and turns them into a kid who is very hard to fool.