Comment by tacitusarc
3 days ago
I’d like to mildly point out that this style of caricaturing ideologies is one of the most effective at entrenching those same ideologies. If you can recognize that those critiquing you are doing so in bad faith, not only does it make the critique easy to dismiss, it provides evidence for the prior that all critiques are in bad faith and can be safely ignored.
Bit of a problem when we can see the bad faith factory. As the OP article points out, there are troll farms which are "working" both sides of an argument by supplying bad faith arguments. With the intent of provoking conflict, rather than a victory for either side.