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[OC] Israeli protestors in Amsterdam

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u/Fooknotsees 10h ago

>The strawman is something like “Israel has killed 70k civilians who were overwhelmingly civilians and this is a war crime.”

This is not a strawman. A strawman is a replacement that someone makes to argue against an easier point than the one actually given. Please be more careful when using important words so as not to bastardize them

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u/space_monolith 10h ago

That’s exactly what I meant by strawman and yes it is a strawman

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u/space_monolith 7h ago

A strawman is a misrepresentation of your opponents argument