Rhetorical Debate Tactics
Comments in this cluster focus on identifying and criticizing disingenuous arguing strategies like sealioning, whataboutism, JAQing off, and bad faith rhetoric used to derail conversations.
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this is a nice rhetorical trick used to avoid thinking about the issue at hand.
It's called arguing in bad faith
This is a speculative, intuitive reflex meant to derail an argument.
As an observer of this conversation, I'd like you to know that you're arguing with a rhetorical device.
Don't put words in his mouth, that's a shitty debating tactic.
That's a super disingenuous way to argue. It only really works at getting people mad, and it's not even very good at that.
I like this arguing tactic of intentional obtuseness!
These people know their arguments are disingenuous. It's just a tactic to derail the conversation to protect the narrative and groomers from criticism and accountability.
This is an unfair debate tactic.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
It's a cheap rhetorical tactic. The negative used to incite someone to talk about X instead of just "What about X?"