There’s gotta be a word for when people say baseline obvious shit like eat healthy and exercise before going off the deep end with pseudoscience bullshit. It’s like they go, “I’m normal, but also [thing a nornal person wouldn’t say.]”
That’s how religion works. “Be nice to each other! Otherwise the guy who is his own dad but also a ghost and still only one person will be mad at you!”
The rest of the shit he says is actively dangerous to your health and mental wellbeing.
There’s gotta be a word for when people say baseline obvious shit like eat healthy and exercise before going off the deep end with pseudoscience bullshit. It’s like they go, “I’m normal, but also [thing a nornal person wouldn’t say.]”
Motte and bailey. Make wild claim, retreat to safe claim when challenged, go back to wild claim.
Jordan Peterson is the master of it.
Correct and correct. Only commenting to add a wiki link.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy
When it feels like someone is spouting impenetrable bullshit look for this connection.
That’s how religion works. “Be nice to each other! Otherwise the guy who is his own dad but also a ghost and still only one person will be mad at you!”
all I’m hearing is that Jesus’s pronouns are they/them as the holy trinity.
The Christian god is a plural system
Its basically a variant of “As a black man…”
Pipelining? Rabbit-holing? Trojan horsing?
I appreciate the type of person that corrects a typo when quoting someone. It requires being in a very narrow band on the spectrum.