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| repeat = '''Repetition''' —Critics often repeat the same claim again and again, as if repetition improved their argument. Or, they use the same 'shock-quote' multiple times. | | repeat = '''Repetition''' —Critics often repeat the same claim again and again, as if repetition improved their argument. Or, they use the same 'shock-quote' multiple times. | ||
| shrill='''Shrillness makes you appear silly and inaccurate''' —When critics become shrill, they sacrifice accuracy and begin making silly sarcastic claims. | | shrill='''Shrillness makes you appear silly and inaccurate''' —When critics become shrill, they sacrifice accuracy and begin making silly sarcastic claims. | ||
− | |truth='''Critics are "lovers of truth" and "truth seekers," while believers are "desperate" and "liars"—Critics always portray themselves as "truth seekers," and imply that believer are liars. | + | |truth='''Critics are "lovers of truth" and "truth seekers," while believers are "desperate" and "liars"'''—Critics always portray themselves as "truth seekers," and imply that believer are liars. |
| warm fuzzies = "'''Warm fuzzies'''"—A mocking term used by critics to describe "feeling the spirit." | | warm fuzzies = "'''Warm fuzzies'''"—A mocking term used by critics to describe "feeling the spirit." | ||
|spaghetti='''Spaghetti defense'''—Critics cannot figure out how something happened, so they will throw every possible explanation at it that they can in the hope that one of them will "stick to the wall." | |spaghetti='''Spaghetti defense'''—Critics cannot figure out how something happened, so they will throw every possible explanation at it that they can in the hope that one of them will "stick to the wall." | ||
|trivialization='''Trivialization'''—Critics take a complex idea and attempt to trivialize it down to a few simple sound bites in order to prove their position. | |trivialization='''Trivialization'''—Critics take a complex idea and attempt to trivialize it down to a few simple sound bites in order to prove their position. | ||
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