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Incidentally, this is Hitlerian argumentation style. Instead of making a straightforward argument, you load it with emotional baggage to support your Stalinesqu
by jeffcutsinger 14y ago
Incidentally, this is Hitlerian argumentation style. Instead of making a straightforward argument, you load it with emotional baggage to support your Stalinesque worldview.
- philwelch 14y agoAdmittedly, if you haven't read 1984 the Orwell reference probably went over your head. "Manichean" is a word you should just look up, as it is quite useful.
- jeffcutsinger 14y ago> Admittedly, if you haven't read 1984 the Orwell reference probably went over your head. Thanks for pointing this out. I did go through high school, so I'm hip to your extremely erudite reference. > "Manichean" is a word you should just look up, as it is quite useful. Really. I don't find much use for it. Maybe if I just spent more time virtuously casting my opponents as evil users of "Orwellian" tactics, I could also point out that _their_ worldview is manichean.
- philwelch 14y agoI guess I should have known you wouldn't have anything useful to say when you started off by comparing me to Hitler.
- cobrausn 14y agoHitler and Stalin reference in one comment! Surely there is some kind of achievement for that.