I have an inner perfectionist which tells me that I should improve on this. When I review it though, it seems pretty good.
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While I generally don't dive into this, I saw a few bad faith remarks which are so outrageous that I feel compelled to respond. First off, when tal...

I think it's kind of the "commenting on a claim" vs "a rule which can apply to many claims", otherwise I end up spending a lot of time redundantly commenting on things.

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When I next update this, I might add that there are other forms of conflation too (i.e. conflating sexy with non-sexy).

Maybe, also improve on the wording of part 2, although it already seems fairly good?

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For instance, when it comes to the wording on one QAnon-like talking point, it might need a reference to the concept of "othering" (which definitely seems to be a problem).

"othering" tends to be very them and us. Those people. Almost like a faceless amorphous blob which someone is chastising. One someone might attach negative stereotypes to (and whose rights / human value get devalued).

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