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This doesn't seem relevant to the topic at hand.

• AnimalMuppet 6y ago
  It's considerably worse than "not relevant". It's a cheap rhetorical trick, blatantly misrepresenting what someone is saying to try to turn that person's statement against a position that the person supports. It's usually done in the form of a drive-by one-line comment. And it deserves to be downvoted to oblivion every time it happens, regardless of your position on the topic, just because the technique is so blatantly dishonest.
  • bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
    You're pearl-clutching about a response to blog post (on some grad student's obscure blog) entitled "Cop Shit" (and a flagged submission, at that). Incidentally, you're also misrepresenting the "cheap rhetorical trick" in question. I'm just fascinated by the unhinged moralizing though.