• ForestGreenGhost@literature.cafe
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    2 months ago

    “Never believe that anti-Semites people like this guy are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites people like this guy have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

    Jean-Paul Sartre

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        2 months ago

        Please do. I am so sick and tired of people like this guy influencing discourse via absurd arguments. I think it’s time for us to start fighting back.

        • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
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          Yes! I’ve put it in my notes app…

          So much Gish galloping and bad faith arguments, I’m fed up.

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          Nice jerk circle, but I made an argument and you made an ad hominem, I think Sartre would be ashamed of you.

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            Never believe that anti-Semites people like this guy are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly <-- This is where you are right now in the quote.