Tbh, a lot of things are "ad hominems;" people do it all the time in arguments and I think it's wrong, but it's a logical fallacy with a bias when it's ever invoked.
"Whataboutism" is an argument that's still invoked, but us MLs know that one well lmao
Though he was talking about the term "revisionist" (when MLs call each other that, for example, without really getting to the crux of why they disagree).
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Tbh, a lot of things are "ad hominems;" people do it all the time in arguments and I think it's wrong, but it's a logical fallacy with a bias when it's ever invoked.
"Whataboutism" is an argument that's still invoked, but us MLs know that one well lmao
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Right, and to be honest, with the discourse on the Internet in general, they've become "thought-terminating epithets," as my friend likes to say.
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Yeah, that's the term my friend uses.
"Thought-terminating epithet."
Though he was talking about the term "revisionist" (when MLs call each other that, for example, without really getting to the crux of why they disagree).