Conor Friedersdorf

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

It starts w/ a strawman dumber than ones actual view. That facilitates a tactic whereby the interlocutor adopts a tone of disdainful sarcasm that signals savvyness... w/o having to risk an earnest statement or say anything smart or insightful. It’s looking good *by comparison* — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 11, 2019 Hibernated

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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

I have identified a new idiom of nonargument: the sarcastic strawman. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 11, 2019 Hibernated

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There’s a woke, virtue-signaling corollary: the more immoral and vicious one makes an interlocutor seem, the more righteous one appears when denouncing them. Again, it’s looking good by comparison. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 11, 2019 Hibernated