Currently: "You seem to be saying <insert ludicrous thing I am not saying> "Could you explain to me why you believe <clearly ludicrous thing there is no reason to think I believe> X 100
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If you discover it, you can name it! The Pluckrose fallacy has a nice ring.
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We should call it PFF...the Pluckrose Fallacy of Fuckwits
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Defining things out of existence is one of the primary ways intersectional academics support their religion. ex) redefining racism as only applying to"'marginalized" groups and sexism as only against women etc. serves to neatly divide everyone into oppressors and the oppressed
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I encounter it often too. Sometimes I reply to them. When I do, it's usually to say "you have poor reading comprehension". Muting is common.
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“No other animal but man produces verbal monsters in his head & projects them on the world outside his head. Language is apparently a sword that cuts both ways. With its help man can conquer the unknown; with it he can grievously wound himself.” — Stuart Chase, 1938
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Conceptual analysis.
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Seems like they're operating from the position of false dichotomy. The nuance is rounded to the nearest hyperbole they understand. That's how my entire political system trundles along.
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What kills me is that practically EVERYONE seems willing to abandon principle/reason at the point where some arbitrary dearly-held personal BELIEF is threatened. Precisely at the point where it's most required. The number of people who don't succumb to this is vanishingly small.
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To be fair humans are the only ones capable of it. I guess those are strong cases of strawmanning. Stay away from them as far as you can. And do not light a match or a lighter within a 50 feet radius. Under any circumstance.
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Transgenderism
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Feminism
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cognitive dissonance
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I thought that was the point of postmodernism - bringing reality down to your level.
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I think that example would be covered by begging the question.
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I think this captures something of it: “We seldom come down to earth, but allow our language forms, or symbolic machinery, to fashion a demonology of absolutes & high-order abstractions, in which we come to believe as firmly as Calvin believed in the Devil.” — Stuart Chase, 1938
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And this: “No other animal but man produces verbal monsters in his head & projects them on the world outside his head. Language is apparently a sword that cuts both ways. With its help man can conquer the unknown; with it he can grievously wound himself.” — Stuart Chase, 1938
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Alternate reality fallacy. You have no idea how evil you are in this alternate reality I have fabricated and am now exclusively going to address.
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