A Manitoba Pride group turned a vandalized billboard into a successful protest campaign ⁠33%

6/25/2026, 5:00:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Indoctrination, Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, and Biased Writer Voice, with In-Group Bias as the most egregious example at 50% saturation with 32 hits. Analysis detected 190 faulty-reasoning hits from 64 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 34.4% and a BS Rank of ⁠33% (20,505 of 30,584 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 67.00% of the article peer group.

After a Pride billboard in Pembina Valley, Manitoba, was vandalized, the local Pride group put an image of the defaced sign on t-shirts with the slogan, “You Can’t Spray Away The Gay.” 
The result was one of their most successful campaigns so far. 
Pauline Emerson-Froebe, President of Pembina Valley Pride, explains. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 17.2%CBC: 2.6%Confirmation Bias17.2%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 17.2%CBC: 3.1%Availability Heuristic17.2%This article: 0.0%CBC: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.9%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 1.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 20.3%CBC: 4.1%Framing Effect20.3%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.6%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.6%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.3%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 3.9%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 1.4%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 5.6%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 1.2%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.8%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 50.0%CBC: 1.2%In-Group Bias50.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 3.6%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 1.2%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.4%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 12.5%CBC: 3.6%Appeal to Authority12.5%This article: 0.0%CBC: 1.2%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.4%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 4.7%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.6%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 4.1%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.6%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 2.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.3%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 17.2%CBC: 3.2%Anecdotal17.2%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 1.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 12.5%CBC: 1.1%Unattributed Quote12.5%This article: 12.5%CBC: 0.7%Quote-first Misdirection12.5%This article: 37.5%CBC: 4.7%Biased Writer Voice37.5%This article: 50.0%CBC: 2.3%Indoctrination50.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.3%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%CBC: 0.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 50.0%CBC: 1.6%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…50.0%

64 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker13%attributed speech56writer words
100%flagged-word coverage
8 attributed words100% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Pauline Emerson-Froebe: 100.0%100.0%Quote-first Misdirection+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Pauline Emerson-Froebe: 100.0%100.0%Indoctrination-57.1 ptsWriter: 57.1%Pauline Emerson-Froebe: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -57.1 ptsWriter: 57.1%Pauline Emerson-Froebe: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-42.9 ptsWriter: 42.9%Pauline Emerson-Froebe: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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