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This sort of argument is generally recognized as a [[logical fallacy]].
This sort of argument is generally recognized as a [[logical fallacy]].
While examples of usage in the modern, metaphorical sense can be found in the early 1900s, its use as a common element in American political rhetoric emerged in the 1970s and gathered momentum in the 1980s. It did not seem to have any specific connection to any single issue. Its first appearance in a New York Times article title was in 1969, "Russia and China Edge Down a Slippery Slope." Headline examples from the 1980s include "On the Slippery Slope To Another Vietnam," "Italy's Communists on Slippery Slope," "The Cheap Dollar's Slippery Slope," etc.
==Quotations illustrating use==
==Quotations illustrating use==