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historical comparisons with clearly demarcated "bad" sides are pretty much just veiled bad faith arguments.


I would say that the bad argument was arguing that someone deserved to be fired because they were "divisive" and "dogmatic" on twitter.

I was only trying to point out the parallels in bad argumentation between now and then.


Then it's a good thing I never made an argument about whether she deserved to be fired.

Top level comment said, paraphrased, "it's a shame people dismiss her as a Twitter personality when she has a highly respected body of work in the field."

My reply was to press that, in my view, she's not being dismissed as "just a Twitter personality", but rather her Twitter behavior is worthy of examination in itself.

Finally, I've never read civil rights era letters to the editor, so I'm not referencing or borrowing any specific rhetoric from there. I'm using bog standard English language words to describe the arguments and advocacies that I am seeing in the present.




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