• CTHlurker [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    A big problem with strawmanning is the fact that you immediately get revealed as wrong the second people actually start examing your beliefs. This person is probably thinking of a very specific subset of leftist that mostly exists online, but because it's the internet, everything is written in a weird generalizing way. Like, these are very specific critiques for a very specific group of people, but written in the most annoying way possible, which means people just get mad because they feel like it unfairly targets them (which again, is a product of the dumb generalizations that the auther made).

    • fifthedition [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      a very specific subset of leftist that mostly exists online

      To a lot of people, that's all they ever see. So they think that's what leftists really are.