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There has to be a name for the rhetorical strategy that goes something like "your opinions or observations are sufficiently similar to media_influencer_I_dont_l
by remarkEon 5y ago
There has to be a name for the rhetorical strategy that goes something like "your opinions or observations are sufficiently similar to media_influencer_I_dont_like regardless of their actual origin, and thus I'm able to discount what you are saying outright". Every time this topic comes up, even when it's in a more interesting and philosophical thread like this one, the Fox News bogyman always gets trotted out. TFA is from ... The Atlantic, if you haven't noticed.
- hackyhacky 5y agoYou are misinterpreting my comment. I am discounting their comment because it does not correspond to my experience at all, not because it comes from Fox News. I am, instead, using Fox News to possibly explain the origin of that opinion, since it certainly cannot come from observation of reality.