• LUD1T3@mastodon.social
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    1 year ago

    “what they meant wasn’t to criticize your failure to provide reasoning, it was to dismiss your claim on the basis of its shape and to call you stupid.”

    ^^^
    Arguing with people like this is pointless. And endless.

    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      Sometimes. It’s a spectrum; what people take seriously depends on their social environment, so you can get people who have absorbed arguments like that and maybe aren’t very rational but still are capable of listening and have worthwhile things to express.