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Big Worded Bull
I increasingly see TRAs stringing together collections of fancy sounding words to try and rationalise a belief system and pretend it is rooted in science and reality instead of a faith-based belief system. It will normally go something along the lines of
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I increasingly see TRAs stringing together collections of fancy sounding words to try and rationalise a belief system and pretend it is rooted in science and reality instead of a faith-based belief system. It will normally go something along the lines of
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"sex is a socially constructed system of oppression for cisnormative white supremascists..." and will contain a raft of -isms -phobics.
Now, you can call it pseudo-scientific-gobbledygook, linguistic prestidigitation, but really it is just intellectual nonsense which
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Now, you can call it pseudo-scientific-gobbledygook, linguistic prestidigitation, but really it is just intellectual nonsense which
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can fulfil some of the following:
1) show off how clever and *sesquipedalian* you are for an ego boost and to force people to spend time interpreting what you said to counter it
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1) show off how clever and *sesquipedalian* you are for an ego boost and to force people to spend time interpreting what you said to counter it
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2) make it overcomplicated because you know it's a lie and you need to obfuscate the lie to bamboozle people into thinking its true by hiding the lie in obtuse terms
3) you don't know what you are talking about, otherwise you would be able to communicate it in a simple and
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3) you don't know what you are talking about, otherwise you would be able to communicate it in a simple and
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effective manner using plain English.
Now I am not opposed to a good word on occasion: I do prefer 'frangible ego' (fragile but in an egg-shell like manner where it shatters). But when you use it to avoid base truths, it just muddies the debate rather than adding clarity.
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Now I am not opposed to a good word on occasion: I do prefer 'frangible ego' (fragile but in an egg-shell like manner where it shatters). But when you use it to avoid base truths, it just muddies the debate rather than adding clarity.
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Consider the succinct 'Woman: adult human female' and the lengths people go to come up with complicated paragraphs to find a way to describe women that will allow men to use the same definition!
Anyone who has done training or teaching will understand how important it is
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Anyone who has done training or teaching will understand how important it is
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to use clear and simple language to explain concepts and ideas, and will know that people switch off when they cannot understand what you are saying.
Online, people rely on others switching off to derail them from arguing and when I see this kind of nonsense,
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Online, people rely on others switching off to derail them from arguing and when I see this kind of nonsense,
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I just scroll on by and don't waste my time.
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