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I like how in English one can make it appear if one is skilfully and logically dismissing an argument without actually even trying to. I don't presume that this was your intent, but the phenomenon is quite interesting and I quite confidently believe dangerous (in that it contributes to some degree to inaccurate models in the minds of those who ingest such text, and those models are what drive action, much of which is harmful...which is easy to see in {choose your outgroup}, but far less easy to see in one's ingroup).


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