The new method of arguing is not to actually look at the person's argument but to instead investigate their background to find some other belief they have. Onc

The new method of arguing is not to actually look at the person's argument but to instead investigate their background to find some other belief they have. Once you find a cancellable belief, you can use that to cancel them and then you can safely ignore their argument. If anyone asks you about their argument, you can just point to the other thing they believe without actually addressing their argument. The reason for this new method of arguing is that arguing without fallacies is hard, and the other person may have a good argument, but then if you follow logic and don't use fallacies and somehow believe that argument everyone will cancel you and completely ignore everything you have to say because when they investigate your background they will find that you believe an argument that makes you cancellable. This is just repackaged Lysenkoism where you stop questioning someone's theory because the whole rest of your life will get cancelled if you do. "More than 3,000 mainstream biologists were dismissed or imprisoned, and numerous scientists were executed in the Soviet campaign to suppress scientific opponents. "[1] Then later on, Stalin, in "Marxism and the Problem of Linguistics" decided that he had made a mistake politicizing basic science and denounced people who attached ideological labels to science and language. That's because Beria was having trouble getting the nuclear bomb project finished because ideologues inside the party were trying to cancel scientists who believed in relativity. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism