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> Please give us this definition before I go into the other things you said here, it makes it easier to frame your other points. You are a text book example of
by exceptione 2y ago
> Please give us this definition before I go into the other things you said here, it makes it easier to frame your other points.
You are a text book example of a Sea Lion [ref 1]. You have no honest intention to engage.
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For the other people to learn to spot these kind of people, some context:
«The sealioner feigns ignorance and politeness while making relentless demands for answers and evidence (while often ignoring or sidestepping any evidence the target has already presented), under the guise of "just trying to have a debate",[5][6][8][11] so that when the target is eventually provoked into an angry response, the sealioner can act as the aggrieved party, and the target presented as closed-minded and unreasonable.[7][12][13] It has been described as "incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate".[9] Sealioning can be performed by an individual or by a group acting in concert.[14]»
«Rhetorically, sealioning fuses persistent questioning—often about basic information, information easily found elsewhere, or unrelated or tangential points—with a loudly-insisted-upon commitment to reasonable debate. It disguises itself as a sincere attempt to learn and communicate. Sealioning thus works both to exhaust a target's patience, attention, and communicative effort, and to portray the target as unreasonable. While the questions of the "sea lion" may seem innocent, they're intended maliciously and have harmful consequence»
What will follow will be victim play and projection, accusing the other of "not playing by the rules". It will likely end with a claim of victory as people will walk out of a discussion with such a person. Do not engage with this kind of people, they feed on it.
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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning#
- hagbard_c 2y agoThat is an ad-hominem, not a definition of the term as I asked for. Now, please, let's hear what you mean when you call people "extreme right" so we can talk clearly instead of throwing epithets and pasting labels.
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- nobankai 2y agoIt's not ad-hominem, you are nit-picking a definition to avoid arguing on the merits of your own discussion.