1) things people just explain 2) things that make people mad and haughty when asked to explain, e.g. “read a 1st year textbook”
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At a certain point, demanding evidence that already exists in widely available and acknowledged sources is a way to demagogue to idiots who are too stupid to understand those sources.
yeah this would legitimately be interesting to study if you could find enough cases - how and when the tactic is used
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sometimes the answer can be summarized in one word (like “calculus”) but the imprecation to read a book doesn’t include it
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that said I don’t know if including a one-word summary makes the tactic more or less annoying
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