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Will the world ever stop being anti-intellectual?
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telling us how you argued with another idiot on the internet doesn't really tell us much about anti-intellectualism
it honestly just looks like you're one of the emboldened.
and now me too! maybe this framing isn't the most helpful.... not the "smartest" framing
If you can provide a way to approach that example differently, I'm open to suggestions. It's an example of my experience, where my comment includes many of the common techniques they employ
Your comment is
Why isn't my experience relevant, and why can't we post our experiences? Are we required to simply say "yes" or "no" and not why?
Wow so you actually think this is evidence, okay. I'm not even sure how to approach this. I was pretty gentle with you and your character too. I was a fucking asshole to a Hexbear user in another thread.
It does come down to character though. By putting one person as "intellectual" and the other "anti" it's creating a hierarchy between perspectives. So then the question is an ethical one, is it justified to dismiss another perspective based on XYZ. I'm guessing in this case, dismissing you is the "anti", right? Based on whatever criteria you've chosen. But what happens if we select different criteria?
Congratulations on being an asshole. Being subtle doesn't change the argument in any manner (and, it is something both gangsters and Trump have tried).
What criteria would you pick to change character attacks, blatant assumption, dismissal of evidence (without counter evidence) or marketing nonsense like "water battery" or "greenwashing" into intellectual arguments (whilst also posting other articles about using fossil fuels for hydrogen)? What about repeating arguments which literally take 2seconds to prove invalid?