What the MSM does, and has always done, is to back every piece of narrative up with a single piece of justification, in a way that makes normies think the narrative is sound and can't be debated further.
The reason given is always a highbrow sounding one, so that normies revere the narrative. When Trump gave people simple reasons normies just mocked him for talking at their level.
When I used to be blue pilled I would often accept the reason given without questioning whether it was telling the whole story or whether there might be 100 other reasons why the narrative view was garbage, unless they were talking about my own field of course.
Anyway, there's a clear logical fallacy in accepting a comfortable "expert" narrative as true based on an unbalanced justification like this. But what's it called?
I feel like if we can name that fallacy in terminology that normies haven't learned yet, then we have a tool to shut down normies with on social media, in the very way they've been trained to accept.
Example: "correction: all men are not privileged, that's an example of (......) fallacy".
Or: "correction: silence is not violence, that's an example of (.......) fallacy"
That's it. Done. Normie has been put back in his place with a high brow response that doesn't give him room to argue back. Call him a conspiracy theorist if he tries.
What the MSM does, and has always done, is to back every piece of narrative up with a single piece of justification, in a way that makes normies think the narrative is sound and can't be debated further.
- Example: all men are privileged because (reason)
- Or: silence is the same as violence because (reason)
The reason given is always a highbrow sounding one, so that normies revere the narrative. When Trump gave people simple reasons normies just mocked him for talking at their level.
When I used to be blue pilled I would often accept the reason given without questioning whether it was telling the whole story or whether there might be 100 other reasons why the narrative view was garbage, unless they were talking about my own field of course.
Anyway, there's a clear logical fallacy in accepting a comfortable "expert" narrative as true based on an unbalanced justification like this. But what's it called?
**I feel like if we can name that fallacy in terminology that normies haven't learned yet, then we have a tool to shut down normies with on social media, in the very way they've been trained to accept.**
- Example: "correction: all men are not privileged, that's an example of (......) fallacy".
- Or: "correction: silence is not violence, that's an example of (.......) fallacy"
That's it. Done. Normie has been put back in his place with a high brow response that doesn't give him room to argue back. Call him a conspiracy theorist if he tries.
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