Round Up The Usual Straw Men
A straw man [argument] is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent’s position. To “attack a straw man” is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by replacing it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the “straw man”), and to refute it, without ever having actually refuted the original position. (source) A chronic conceit employed by the Left is the straw man argument — a foul stew of ignorance, projection, intellectual dishonesty, and a single-minded contempt for reality. It takes the natural (and often useful) human tendency to generalize and turns it into a...
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