The funniest thing about hardcore political partisans is how they're unable to see criticism of their side as anything else than the "other" side.
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Criticize Jordan Peterson, you're a cultural Marxist.
Criticize Democrats, you're a Russia bot.
Criticize Republicans, you're a left-wing agitator.
Criticize modern Marxists, you're an imperialist by proxy.
The list just keeps on going.
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The one example I can think of where this bears out is climate change.
That's very much a do or do not proposition. If you don't care about it, it cares about you.
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Physical phenomena, though, don't really tend to obey the same rules as politics.
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What about criticizing oneself? I guess that's an individual problem. Anyways good points, what you're bringing up is quite the logical fallacy when used in a debate
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Mpre of a universal one. Most people are terrible at self-criticism.
Even people capable of seeing their own flaws tend to overcompensate the other way.
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