2. Red Herring Fallacy: This fallacy is basically the use of a trick to avoid the main points, often by ignoring other views instead of facing them:

The critic Roy Christopher has called irony “the most abused trope of our time, a ‘get out of judgment free’ card, an escape route, an exit strategy.”

“Red herrings” has an amusing etymology: As peasant poachers of deer and grouse made off with their booty through medieval forests, they would drag a fish, a red herring, across the trail to confuse the lord of the manor’s bloodhounds.