This is a pretty neat response to a debate that has had a lot of strawmen and arguing against statements nobody said. The longer an essay is, the further apart

This is a pretty neat response to a debate that has had a lot of strawmen and arguing against statements nobody said. The longer an essay is, the further apart the main arguments are and the easier it is to forget parts of the essays. The ones we remember most saliently, of course, are the controversial claims that trigger an emotional response, not the paragraphs of simple history fact-stating that builds up to the conclusion. As a result, responses to the essay tend to strip out the context of claims and argue against them in a vacuum.