Not disagreeing with your point, but I don’t understand why people call these baseless arguments “emotional”.

The aim of the person making the argument is to try and use someone else’s plight and disadvantages as a reason to excuse their choices.

They don’t do this by tugging on heart strings. They do this by trying to position themselves as a 3rd party neutral observer which makes the reader more likely to believe that their claim that a claimed injustice is real or a claimed solution will work.

It’s not an attempt to deceive through emotion. It’s an attempt to deceive by making themselves appear as neutral and unbiased.