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It's a common thought-terminating cliche [0] employed by the unsophisticated to simply declare the other party as "arguing in bad faith" and claim victory, whil
by ryandv 2y ago
It's a common thought-terminating cliche [0] employed by the unsophisticated to simply declare the other party as "arguing in bad faith" and claim victory, while still being very clearly, undeniably, wrong.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A...
- squircle 2y agoGood counterpoint.
- blased 2y agoI was going to say this exactly. I would also group in "mis/disinformation" because it's such a clumsy phrase and people will often say both making it an even larger often-repeated verbal monstrosity. It's interesting because, for me at least, there's an aesthetic quality to these phrases that is unmistakable.
- pentel-0_5 2y agoA subset of passive aggressiveness or crybullying perhaps as an excuse to employ stonewalling, one of the 4 horsemen of the relationship apocalypse. It's even more corrosive when combined with a social group pattern of continually excommunicating the latest "impure" or "nonbeliever."