the argument you seem to have just supported is...
Ad hominem (
Latin for "to the man" or "to the person"
[1]), short for
argumentum ad hominem, is a fallacious argumentative strategy whereby genuine discussion of the topic at hand is avoided by instead attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, or persons associated with the argument, rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself.
[2] The terms
ad mulierem[3] and
ad feminam[4] have been used when the person receiving the criticism is a woman.
However, its original meaning was an argument "calculated to appeal to the person addressed more than to impartial reason".
[5]
Fallacious
ad hominem reasoning is categorized as an
informal fallacy,
[6][7][8] more precisely as a
genetic fallacy, a subcategory of
fallacies of irrelevance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
