Identify any fallacies in the following passage either by naming them or, where they seem not to conform to any of the patterns described in the text, by giving a brief explanation of why the fallacious reasoning is irrelevant to the point at issue.You can't trust the arguments you find in that magazine. It's well known as a right-wing apologist for the wealthy.

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Genetic fallacy. As noted in the text, arguments stand on their own feet; their origins are not important.

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