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Right, a non-confused attack on the deontologist in the spirit of the confused attack would say something like "your meta-ethical theory does not sufficiently explain the injunctions included in your normative, deontological theory." But as you imply, this is a criticism of a meta-ethical theory, or better yet an ethicist's whole view. This is not an attack on deontology as such.
And I don't think there's any name for those who make the mistake I point out. Its not even really a mistake, just a confusion about how a certain academic discussion is organized, which leads, in this case, to a lot of strawmaning.
Sorry, looks like I should have been clearer on the last point. I wasn't asking for the name of a fallacy, I was asking if there is a name for the type of meta-ethics that leads to deontology.
As to the name of the fallacy, I'm not sure. I suppose it's something like a misplaced expectation? The mistake is thinking that a certain theoretical moving part should do more work than it is rightly expected to do, while refusing to examine those moving parts which are rightly expected to do that work. EDIT: An example of a similar mistake might be thinking that a decision theory should tell you what to value and why, or that evolution should give an account of bio-genesis.
The SEP article's last section, on deontology and metaethics is very helpful here: