• ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      One of us wrote an entire comment that contained nothing but a lie and personal attack, and it wasn’t me.

      Edit: Facts make y’all real mad, lol.

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          2 hours ago

          Calling out strawmanning is literally not a personal attack, it’s an attack on the dishonesty of the argument.

          Comparing someone who is strawmanning to an actual person (read: not a generic pejorative like calling someone a “Karen”, for example) who literally became infamous for blatantly and shamelessly strawmanning during a public interview, is also not a personal attack, especially when the basis of the comparison is something they literally just did, not something I’ve accused them of without evidence or something.

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            Comparing someone who is strawmanning to an actual person (read: not a generic pejorative like calling someone a “Karen”, for example) who literally became infamous for blatantly and shamelessly strawmanning during a public interview

            Who are you referring to? Because it definitely read like you were using a “generic perjorative term like calling someone a ‘Karen’”. Judging by the responses, I think this is how most people took it as well.