TankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.net to Slop.@hexbear.net · 2 months agoBluSky now automatically hides every post by BadEmpanada with a "Rude" filterhexbear.netimagemessage-square116linkfedilinkarrow-up1123arrow-down10
arrow-up1123arrow-down1imageBluSky now automatically hides every post by BadEmpanada with a "Rude" filterhexbear.netTankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.net to Slop.@hexbear.net · 2 months agomessage-square116linkfedilink
minus-squareShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·edit-22 months ago“Erm aksually you’re the smug one. Ad hominem, wengardium leviosa”
minus-squareZeroHora@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2 months agoI never associate “Ad hominem”, “whataboutism”, etc to magic words but it’s exactly how people see it. They use it and boom they win the argument.
minus-squareLe_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agothey hear or read the words but don’t learn the concepts, or are downstream of a bunch of people who used it wrong. and i say wrong here because they were trying to say something else and failed to say what they meant, not out of prescriptivism.
“Erm aksually you’re the smug one. Ad hominem, wengardium leviosa”
I never associate “Ad hominem”, “whataboutism”, etc to magic words but it’s exactly how people see it. They use it and boom they win the argument.
they hear or read the words but don’t learn the concepts, or are downstream of a bunch of people who used it wrong.
and i say wrong here because they were trying to say something else and failed to say what they meant, not out of prescriptivism.