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>You're using the same metric just backwards.

If I say "X is wrong" it doesn't mean I advocate -X ("the same metric just backwards"). I just say "don't use X". How about that?

Notice also how I didn't say I "Disagree with anything said using what I deem a fad phrase".

As I wrote I just disagree with the fad phrases themselves. One can write something right and clever even while using a fad phrase.

But they would have done better to write their arguments/thinking without resorting to fad phrases (is my point).

There's still the ages old, definition of what you want to say, in simple words (or more nuanced ones), without using pre-made, overplayed so that every source attaches their own irrelevant nuances, played to death, and ill-defined, framings.



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