A strawman is a claim or argument falsely attributed to an interlocutor, not just an assumption (stated or otherwise) that is not shared. At worst, what we have

A strawman is a claim or argument falsely attributed to an interlocutor, not just an assumption (stated or otherwise) that is not shared. At worst, what we have here is a non sequitur. The fact that you have misused the term twice in this discussion suggests that either you don't really understand it (a commentary on the dangers of ad hoc education?) or that you're merely using it as a rhetorical club instead of a good-faith counterargument. Either way, please don't.