Generalize: attacks on form are a tacit agreement with substance.
When someone attacks a statement as "tone deaf," it means they believe it's true. Otherwise they'd attack it as false.
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Not necessarily. See http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/04/the_mellow_heur.html … for example.
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All so stupid and mean and they're usually right
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A lie may also be assessed as tone deaf to explain the gap btwn how the liar thought the lie would be taken & how it was actually received.
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So, e.g., finding his statement *both* false & tone deaf, I may emphasize the latter, wondering aloud why he thought it wouldn't offend.
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If a statement is true doesn't necessarily mean it carries a valid point
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Binary thinking. There are different kinds of wrong, and varying degrees of truthfulness, context, etc.
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true, correct and correct to say arent always the same things
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As Galileo for example discovered.
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If that was the only thing that could be said about a statement, yes. Tone deafness could be the most prominent problem
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I suspect that tone deafness tips the listener to the speaker' begged questions.
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