Comment by cmrdporcupine
2 months ago
Yeah I can see this can be an irritating rhetorical device. It implies that the reader already has a certain judgement or explanation, and makes a straw man in order to turn around and then argue against it, throwing nuance out the window.
It's irritating on purpose, for engagement.
It’s not nuance, it’s intellectual dishonesty.
I see what you did there :-)