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zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 21 hours agoAllow me to be serious for a moment: That is absolutely not what tone policing is. Please go read this or something a bit more in depth than the wiki article: blog.stetson.edu/…/tone-policing/
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Tone policing is a much older and more common tactic than that. It’s fallacious because it’s responding to the implied tone of a person’s writing (or their emotions) rather than the specific claims of their argument.