Classic fallacy fallacy. The fallacy fallacy is a fallacy that asserts that because an argument is fallacious, the conclusion of the argument is false.
Ironically, I think you may have fallen victim to a kind of fallacy fallacy fallacy, because the fallacy fallacy concerns the interpretation of an argument assuming a valid fallacy in it does exist. At least according to Wikipedia's definition of fallacy fallacy.
Rather, in this case the parent post merely misidentified a fallacy.
People really ought to learn that pointing out a fallacy doesn't suddenly make it false. I mean I could point out that that is known as the fallacy fallacy, but then I'd be doing the same thing myself.
Really a fallacy represents a particular weak argument. The way to defeat them is not to name the correct fallacy but to point out the weakness.
If that doesn't work then you likely have the wrong fallacy, or the argument isn't fallacious to begin with.
I don't think that's a fallacy fallacy. Fallacy fallacy is when there really is a fallacy in a person's argument, and that fact is used to reason that the argument's conclusion is false.
The fallacy fallacy is when you argue a conclusion must be false because of a fallacy in how it was reached.
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