• qarbone@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    We’re all on the internet, you can look up the actual definition for “strawman” like I just did.

    To paraphrase: strawmanning an argument is not so concretely about “putting words in anyone’s mouth”.

    It is the process of debating a newly-created stance/position/idea that is easily disproven and visibly flawed when this new position may or may not be related to anything in the pre-existing debate. You don’t have to be ‘responding to anyone’; in fact, it fits more if you are not arguing something that anyone in the debate has referenced before.