• _NoName_@lemmy.ml
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    23 days ago

    it’s like calling your opponent bot, voids a lot of what you have to say

    That’s not quite the same. When calling someone a bot, or nazi, or any other group, you are more explicitly saying " I see zero value in arguing with you and expect that you will only be arguing in bad faith, so I am not going to humor you", and also serves as an at least attempted black mark.

    It’s overall just a tactic to end an argument sucinctly, by trying to say “this argument has run its course, I am cutting it off here”

    Every group does it. communists call people libs or nazis, leftists call people tankies or nazis or zionists, liberals call people hippies, nazis, commies, anarchists, etc… and conservatives call people by every word in the book.